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The narrative follows a solemn, mud-bound funeral procession, guided by a strange celebrant and shaped by family tensions, regret, and unanswered questions. Nature imagery and eerie details contrast with the bodily truth of death, turning the burial into a haunting, unsettling reflection on love, failure, and what remains.","THE GRAVE SONG  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nThis is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author ’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely  \ncoincidental.  \nCopyright © Andrew James Greig, 2026  \nThe moral right of the author has been asserted.  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or used in any manner without the prior written permission of the copyright owner. This prohibition includes, but is not limited to, any reproduction or use for the purpose of training artificial intelligence technologies or systems.  \nTo request permissions, contact the publisher at rights@stormpublishing.co  \nEbook ISBN: 978-1-83700-466-9  \nPaperback ISBN: 978-1-83700-468-3  \nCover design: Blacksheep  \nCover images: Depositphotos, Shutterstock  \nPublished by Storm Publishing.  \nFor further information, visit:  \n[www.stormpublishing.co](www.stormpublishing.co)  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nALSO BY ANDREW JAMES GREIG  \nPrivate Investigator Teàrlach Paterson  \nThe Girl in the Loch  \nSilent Ritual  \nThe Graveyard Bell  \nDetective Corstorphine  \nThe Bone Clock  \nThe Devil’s Cut  \nMurder of Crows  \nThe Drowning Glen  \nStandalones  \nA Song of Winter  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCONTENTS  \n1. Butterfingers  \n2. Peace In Nature  \n3. And exhume  \n4. Aura  \n5. What is love?  \n6. Charlie Foxtrot  \n7. Fay Fife  \n8. Rezillo  \n9. Loch View  \n10. Strike it lucky  \n11. That’s the way to do it  \n12. Kayak  \n13. Fallen  \n14. Fishing  \n15. First kiss  \n16. Geiger  \n17. Priest  \n18. Who killed Sarah?  \n19. Hair  \n20. Boxes  \n21. Sarah Ross  \n22. Mumbo Jumbo  \n23. Gnomeless  \n24. Helmet  \n25. Memento  \n26. Snap, Crackle and Pop  \n27. Cuckoo  \n28. Thyroid  \n29. Freckles  \n30. Ionisation  \n31. Red Plastic  \n32. Brains removed  \n33. Crosshairs  \n34. Karma  \n35. Bulge  \n36. Mary  \n37. In the Dark  \n38. Climbing  \n39. Reunion  \n40. Mary’s Story  \n41. Red Sky  \n42. Sleep Tight  \n43. The Grave Song  \n44. Meet and Greet  \n45. Yerman  \n46. Grapefruit  \n47. Questions  \n48. Broken Leg  \n49. Jack’s not alright  \n50. Fortune  \n51. Skull  \n52. Fatherhood  \n53. The Accused  \n54. Gnome from Home  \n55. Killing Gnome  \n56. Letters  \n57. Photos  \n58. Family Tree  \n59. Date  \n60. Sisters  \n61. The Fall  \n62. Jack and Mary  \n63. Half a sister  \n64. Who killed Donald?  \n65. Bladder control  \n66. Mouths of babes  \n67. Désolée  \n68. Faen  \n69. Amelia  \n70. Missing  \n71. Kidnap  \n72. Fool’s gold  \n73. The Centre  \n74. On Manoeuvres  \n75. Burger  \n76. Vanguard  \n77. Paternity  \n78. Furniture  \n79. Charged  \n80. Chairs  \n81. Service  \n82. That is the Question  \nAlso by Andrew James Greig  \nA Letter from the Author  \nThe Bone Clock  \nThe Devil’s Cut  \nMurder of Crows  \nSilent Ritual  \nThe Graveyard Bell  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nAction is transitory, a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle, this way or that,’Tis done—And in the after-vacancy, We wonder at ourselves, like men betrayed. William Wordsworth‘The Borderers’(1842)  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nONE  \nBUTTERFINGERS  \nJack was no expert, but he knew a corpse when he saw one.  \nAll his ma ever wanted was a simple funeral. Not a cremation. I want to give something back to the earth. Give me a woodland burial. Somewhere with birds and insects so I can be part of nature.  \nShe loved nature. Took more delight in wildflowers and the erratic flight of bumblebees than she did in her own children. There was a reason for that. He was beginning to understand her now that she was gone. One of life’s crueller ironies.  \nThey’d been pulling a handcart, his hand grasping one side as they walked solemnly in slow procession through gentle summer smirr. Wooden wheels squeaked under the load, rims following existing ruts as if to show them the way. 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