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    Slime & Crime: GGPD Files, #1
    Slime & Crime: GGPD Files, #1
    Slime & Crime: GGPD Files, #1
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    Slime & Crime: GGPD Files, #1

    By Michèle Laframboise

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    The Greater Garden juridiction has erupted into a hotbed of crime, where beer traps and winged predators threaten unsuspecting, law-abiding citizens. 

    Called on an accidental heat-death, the best sleuth of the GGPD suspects foul play. Officer Gowoon slogs her way through a murder investigation, warding off mating attempts from obnoxious colleagues, while keeping a wary eyestalk to escape the soles of the lightning-fast giants who roam the territory.

    Fortunately, she can count on brawny Zgouish for assistance, but his bad-slogger charm instills fuzzy feelings under her shell...

    Murder, beer-smuggling, corruption, steamy sexual tension... you'll never see your backyard garden the same way again!

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    "Laframboise does an excellent job of translating the rhythm and feel of the typical murder mystery into the realities of a snail's eye view." 

    -- Robert L Turner, for Tangent 

    Original publication in Fiction River #22 editd by John Helfers, Human not Allowed

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEchofictions
    Release dateJun 27, 2019
    ISBN9781988339658
    Slime & Crime: GGPD Files, #1
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    Michèle Laframboise

    A science-fiction lover since childhood, Michèle Laframboise has written 17 novels and more than 30 short-stories, in French and English. Her short-stories have been published in Solaris, Galaxies, Géante Route, Brins d’Éternité, Tesseracts and a few other anthologies.  Some of her works were translated in Italian, German and Russian. Michèle is also a comic enthusiast who drew a dozen of graphic novels. As a science-fiction writer, she endeavors to find creative solutions to the many challenges that lay before us. / Michèle Laframboise est une ex-scientifique devenue auteure de science-fiction. Elle a publié 17 romans et une trentaine de nouvelles, récoltant plusieurs distinctions et prix littéraires. Ses nouvelles ont été publiées dans les revues Solaris, Galaxies, Géante Route, Brins d’Éternité, Tesseracts et d’autres anthologies. Elle a été traduite en italien, en allemand et en russe. Dessinatrice enthousiaste, elle a aussi publié une douzaine de BD. Sa science fiction cherche toujours des solutions créatives aux défis qui nous attendent

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      Slime & Crime - Michèle Laframboise

      Slime & Crime

      A story from the GGPD Files

      by

      Michèle Laframboise

      Echofictions

      michele-laframboise.com

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      Slime & Crime

      I DIDN’T SEE A THING.

      Melizz’s skin was a riot of wrinkles and folds. Creamy sweat beads dribbled down his body, ending in a sticky puddle. He would have to shift his weight soon.

      I shifted myself away from the witness, then opened my scent channels to assess his signed words. I smelled his sweat: neutral, devoid of the tang coming from badly metabolized water.

      Liars couldn’t help retaining their water.

      Keeping more water inside meant the body’s sweat would be saturated with salts. Droplets with high levels of salt induced an oxidation of the lipid complexes that maintained the skin’s optimal elasticity.

      Sweat told a lot about a slogger’s dispositions. I had learned to minimize my own output to better smell others’. This particular skill gave me the best crime solving rate of the GGPD.

      Most investigators concentrated on the slime trail.

      Alas, this case could be a career-stopper. A strong scent of aster pods suffused the crime scene, a bare sun-kissed granite rock, so much that a liar’s sweat could get unnoticed.

      I regretted not ordering Zgouish to get rid of the horrid, spiky pods. Those big sun-petaled umbrellas were annoying enough, without having to deal with their pods. Besides being spicy junk food, their scent messed with ambient smells.

      But Zgouish was busy interrogating another witness. This one was a first-cycler, not even named yet. He was the one who found the desiccated body. Melizz had sent the olfactive call.

      From my position, I could only glimpse a pale, slim eyestalk behind my partner’s squat mass. His sheer size made Zgouish very apt at drawing information. His scarred shell was intimidating.

      The witness’ eyestalk was waving up and down, a sign of panic or of an urgent need to shift.

      Excellent.

      I left Zgouish working the witness and oozed back to the body.

      The crime scene technician had finished sampling the tissues and the blood, but there was a hitch for the sweat.

      Because of the afternoon discovery, the victim’s skin

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