'“Uniform just called it in,” he said as she scanned the sheet. “Young woman found in the bush out west. Been there a few days it says.” Oh great, she thought, eyes pecked out by birds, fingers chewed off by rats, body reeking to high heaven. She’d seen it—and smelled it—too often before.' (extract from Manhunt by Jack Holbrook) What drives someone to dedicate their life to fighting crime, especially when that someone is a petite, intelligent woman who gave up a promising future as a lawyer for a dead-end career in the police? Even her colleagues think she isn’t cut out for the job, yet they all agree that Alexandra Bertolissio, the hero of Jack Holbrook’s new novella, Manhunt, is frighteningly good at catching the villains. Available in Adobe PDF format (.pdf) so you can read it on your Kindle, Sony Reader, or almost any other e-book reader or computer.