Mica Le Fox

Murdo (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

A career in the tax office is a nice, safe, if somewhat dull career for a girl, wouldn't you say?

Now fast forward to a time 100 years after Destruction when survivors are just beginning to organise themselves into settlements. They pay taxes to a regional council in return for protection and trading rights but these settlements are often run by ruthless despots who exert control by force and are, shall we say, often not well disposed to paying their dues.

Into this volatile mix comes Murdo, Tax Inspector for thr Council of the East. It's her job to visit these far-flung and often lawless townships and... well... make tax adjustments. I would have to say that tax refunds are very rare and so the opportunity for dispute is omnipresent.

Now you should reconsider what a taxman will be in the future. Murdo is well versed in finding discrepancies in a ledger... you know, like hidden petty cash or trumped up expenses. But as a modern tax inspector, she is equally adept at defending herself from a sudden knife attack from an angry settler who does not agree with her calculations.

But she has Buzzard, assistant tax inspector whose face bears the disfigurements one might expect of a long career in the Inland Revenue. Ugly or not, he is a very good man to have beside you when you suggest to your large, aggressive thug of a customer that he must pay fifty tokens more than he considers himself liable for.

Murdo and Buzzard are sent to investigate the self styled Baron Cosborough who runs a settlement from his pre-Destruction manor house reached by a causeway at low tide on a wild and windswept coast of Lincoln Shire - at the very edge of The Council's jurisdiction. The Councillors are grumbling that the Baron looks a whole lot more wealthy than his tax payments suggest. What is needed, they say, is a tax inspection and so Murdo and Buzzard set off one November morning for the hazardous journey north.

Brigands and Degenerates roam the countryside and the back roads are safer than the deteriorating but still usable motorway, but even so the journey is not for the fainthearted. But then Murdo is a tax inspector and certainly not fainthearted.

She lodges with the local whore, a beautiful and clever young woman whose customers include the local 'aristocracy' who are, in fact, Murdo's suspects so what she must not do is become involved with her... but on top of the most protracted and dangerous case of her career, Murdo is beginning to realise that she is hopelessy attracted to her.

Murdo is a scrupulous servant of the Council as it tries to bring order to the chaos of the last century and she is determined to ferret out Cosborough's obvious concealment and so falling for a prostitute seems to be the most unwise thing she could possibly do, especially as being a lesbian is not exactly acceptable at this stage of re-civilisation.

But then, with civilisation looking a lot like a freezing, muddy, bloody mess, a little comfort from the doe-eyed, soft, warm Elinnor is so hard to resist.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mica Le Fox
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781005131951
• Artikelnr.: 72390514