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    Seven Sisters: Women and a Murder
    Seven Sisters: Women and a Murder
    Seven Sisters: Women and a Murder
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    Seven Sisters: Women and a Murder

    By Wilma Hayes

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    SEVEN SISTERS

    To write seven stories, it's helpful to have seven individuals or events from which to launch them.

    There are various descriptions of Seven Sisters. Perhaps the best known being the Seven Sisters on the Sussex coast of England. The bright white cliffs important to sailors and airmen all have names, but apart from copious instructions on how to get there and what to do once you do, there's little intriguing information about their history or how they came to be named.

    The seven stars of the Pleiades on the other hand form an open star cluster in the constellation of Taurus. They are observable to the naked eye, appear in the autumn usually November, and they have names! However, the folklore around them is confusing, often contradictory and in some case very sparse. In a way this was helpful as it allowed me to pick what suited the theme of the series - a murder mystery. Where the mythology was scant, I have taken the liberty of all fiction and, dare I say it, mythology writers, to make up stuff!

    And there was rather a lot of ‘making things up’, since I realised early in the writing that I knew very little about police procedures, crime scene protocol, interviewing rights and wrongs and a great many other things that had not slapped me hard enough in all the crime fiction I had read or watched. Ah well, learning is good for the soul!

    The Seven Stars of the Pleiades - the Seven Sisters - are known by Greek or Roman names and sadly (perhaps because they were female myths!) are identified in most cases by their husbands and their children! In some tales, they were pursued by Orion (and still are in the night sky) or committed suicide in grief at the death of their father Atlas. In either case, Zeus made them into stars to keep them safe forever.

    Taygete was the mistress of the animals. Tanny Anderson loves animals with troubles of their own, so gives her time to volunteer at a rescue farm where the worst happens.

    Maia was the eldest of the Pleiades. In Greek mythology she was the goddess of nursing mothers, midwifery, and grandmothers. Mia Taylor, has a long career in the police but it was for one reason only. Now a Detective Inspector, she is at last in the position she worked years to achieve.

    Alcyone is the goddess of calm and tranquillity, love and commitment. She lost her husband at sea. Alison Peters is a career detective with her life at last assembled and on a path that allows her to be an influence for good. But it wasn't always thus. There are still hollows that she can never fill.

    Electra's name means sparkling, fiery sun or amber. She has knowledge of martial arts and looks for vengeance. Detective Constable Ellen Fraser is an enthusiastic member of the team. Keen to be the one to solve the crime, she makes quick deductions that are not always the correct ones.

    Celaeno is the dark, swarthy one. She is the Greek goddess of storms. Carol wants to assert herself in a new position. She is ambitious but to get what she wants will require some changes.

    Sterope is a Greek star spirit. She is said to represent lightning, a twinkling sun-face or alternatively a stubborn one. Silk is a woman with a personality that everyone loves, but with a life style that is not to everyone's taste. Change may be forced on her one way or another.

    Merope is the smallest and faintest of the stars as if she had been added as an afterthought. She is eloquent and became a mortal after marrying one. Mary Lettice is the civilian in the office who searches records, old files, new files, newspaper archives and nags forensics. She is the one who waits for what she knows is the inevitable.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWilma Hayes
    Release dateSep 29, 2019
    ISBN9780995787087
    Seven Sisters: Women and a Murder
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    Wilma Hayes

    'The Welsh Marches is an evocative place. Full of mystery, history, and tiny old houses, it leads easily into Wales - a perfect place to write and to set romantic novels with mysteries and crimes embedded in them.'This is how Wilma summarises the inspiration for her four novels in the Welsh Marches series and the forty-nine short stories which follow and make up Sevens, Stories to Commute By.Luckily for her, she was able to escape to this scenic area and begin to write. It is not a gift that many people are given, but with a tiny cottage of her own, an accompanying cottage garden and a husband who is handy with a computer and a coffee pot, the opportunity was too good to ignore.

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      Seven Sisters - Wilma Hayes

      SEVEN SISTERS

      by Wilma Hayes

      A short novella concerning women, a murder and an unusual conclusion.

      SEVEN SISTERS

      by Wilma Hayes

      Published by Wilma Hayes at Smashwords

      Copyright 2019

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your favourite ebook retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      ISBN 978-0-9957870-8-7

      All Kinds of Seven

      Whoever thought that writing forty-nine short stories was a good idea needs to lie down in a dark room for a short while until it passes. That would be me, and I didn’t.

      Seven is a lovely number and when I began these it seemed like an achievable task. The first little novella was quite good fun. I think you can see how it progressed from there and soon seven little novellas with seven chapters or stories each became the goal. It was a long slog.

      The stories or chapters are all of similar length and I thought that they would make nice stories for a commute taking 10 to 15 minutes each, so 2 in a 20 or 30 minute commute and so on. Or a short or longer tea break if you prefer! Naturally everyone reads at different rates, so these times are my best guess.

      Some of the stories in each set are like chapters in a book, in that one logically follows the other; some are quite individual tales but with commonality. None of them follow the Seven theme too strictly, but stories are like that; they wander off piste from time to time.

      Naturally, I like some stories better than others and I am sure you will too. But I hope that they will help your commute to work or give you a few minutes for a cuppa.

      See www.wilmahayes.co.uk for more information about me or other books.

      Wilma Hayes

      SEVEN SISTERS

      To write seven stories, it's helpful to have seven individuals or events from which to launch them.

      There are various descriptions of Seven Sisters. Perhaps the best known being the Seven Sisters on the Sussex coast. The bright white cliffs important to sailors and airmen all have names, but apart from copious instructions on how to get there and what to do once you do, there's little intriguing information about their history or how they came to be named.

      The seven stars of the Pleiades on the other hand form an open star cluster in the constellation of Taurus. They are observable to the naked eye, appear in the autumn usually November, and they have names! However, the folklore around them is confusing, often contradictory and in some case very sparse. In a way this was helpful as it allowed me to pick what suited the theme of the series - a murder mystery. Where the mythology was scant, I have taken the liberty of all fiction and, dare I say it mythology writers, to make up stuff!

      And there was rather a lot of ‘making things up’, since I realized early in the writing that I knew very little about police procedures, crime scene protocol, interviewing rights and wrongs and a great many other things that had not slapped me hard enough in all the crime fiction I had read or watched. Ah well, learning is good for the soul!

      The Seven Stars of the Pleiades - the Seven Sisters - are known by Greek or Roman names and sadly (perhaps because they were female myths!) are identified in most cases by their husbands and their children! In some tales, they were pursued by Orion (and still are in the night sky) or committed suicide in grief at the death of their father Atlas. In either case, Zeus made them into stars to keep them safe forever.

      Taygete was the mistress of the animals. Tanny Anderson loves animals and with troubles of her own, gives her time and attention at a rescue farm until the worst happens.

      Maia was the eldest of the Pleiades. In Greek mythology she was the goddess of nursing mothers, midwifery, and grandmothers. Mia Taylor, has a long career in the police but it was for one reason only. Now a Detective Inspector, she is at last in the position she worked years to achieve.

      Alcyone is the goddess of calm and tranquillity, love and commitment. She lost her husband at sea. Alison Peters is a career detective with her life at last assembled and on a path that allows her to be an influence for good. But it wasn't always thus. There are still hollows that she can never fill.

      Electra's name means sparkling, fiery sun or amber. She has knowledge of martial arts and looks for vengeance. Detective Constable Ellen Fraser is an enthusiastic member of the team. Keen to be the one to solve the crime, she makes quick deductions that are not always the correct ones.

      Celaeno is the dark, swarthy one. She is the Greek goddess of storms. Carol wants to assert herself in a new position. She is ambitious but to get what she wants will require some changes.

      Sterope is a Greek star spirit. She is said to represent lightning, a twinkling sun-face or alternatively a stubborn one. Silk is a woman with a personality that everyone loves, but with a life style that is not to everyone's taste. Change may be forced on her one way or another.

      Merope is the smallest and faintest of the stars as if she had been added as an afterthought. She is eloquent and became a mortal after marrying one. Mary Lettice is the civilian in the office who searches records, old files, new files, newspaper archives and nags forensics. She is the one who waits for what she knows is the inevitable.

      Wilma Hayes

      Table of Contents

      Taygete

      Maia

      Alcyone

      Electra

      Celaeno

      Sterope

      Merope

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      Taygete

      The Victim

      One of the Seven Stars of the Pleiades, Taygete was the mistress of the animals.

      Monday Morning 'I know it's your first day here Ma'am, but we've a probable murder. A body. A young woman, reported at The Farm. A girl actually, Ma'am.'

      Mia dropped the precious photo and frame back into the box she was unpacking on her desk. Is this the one? So soon. I'm not ready!

      'DC Ellen Fraser? Right?' The short Detective Constable with the blond spiky hair, dressed in jeans and a smart blouse nodded. Mia felt light headed with her breath compressed into the top of her lungs. It's too soon. 'Get DS Peters and take us there.' They met Detective Sergeant Alison Peters backing into the team office with a coffee in each hand.

      'Bring those,' Mia said taking one cardboard cup from the tall Sergeant. 'We've got a scene.' They clattered down the stairs and into the car park. 'Ellen? Tell me what we've got.'

      DC Fraser reversed the car out and into the car park. 'The first call was early this morning at The Farm, an animal sanctuary. The manager discovered the body of a young woman. The first responders, then uniform attended. Death was confirmed as suspicious. The scene is secured and forensics are there now.' They turned onto the main road.

      Mia turned to the DS in the back seat. 'What about this Farm? It's new to me.'

      'A farm sanctuary, Ma'am. They rescue farm animals and give them a home.'

      Ellen added, 'Animals that are injured or ill treated. Of no use to the farmer any longer. Or animals that outgrow the homes they were bought for. That sort of thing. They give them medical help, look after them and give them a happy life.'

      'Do they keep taking animals? Why don't they run out of space or have they got a lot of it?'

      'I think they try to get them adopted, Ma'am. Although some stay for a long time, like forever.' Moments later the DC slung the car around a corner, braked hard and turned down

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