Digging for a story

Written by  Joe Massucci
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Thriller and mystery plots are all around us. Imagine what a good mystery writer could do with something I heard this morning.
grave-120x180The grandmother of a friend died recently and was buried in a family plot in a Mississippi graveyard that was quite old.

During the interment, the gravediggers found another coffin where grandma was supposed to rest. The newly discovered remains had apparently been there for some time, but no records or marker survive to say who it was. Per Mississippi law, the original coffin can't be removed, and the new remains must be buried over the old.

And so it was....

Joe Massucci

Joe Massucci

Joe Massucci is an internationally published thriller novelist and nonfiction author born and raised in steel-town Pittsburgh, Pa. He has written more than 2,500 articles for corporate and trade publications, and is working on his fifth novel, THE FOLD.

Website: massucci.com

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