Still Bleeding: A Jack Nightingale Short Story

Jack Nightingale #4.4

by Stephen Leather

Supernatural detective Jack Nightingale is called in to investigate a case of stigmata. A young girl is bleeding from her hands and feet and claims to be talking to the Virgin Mary. But Nightingale soon realises that all is not as it seems - and the girl is in mortal danger.

Still Bleeding is about 14,000 words, about forty pages, perfect if you have half an hour to spare.

Stephen Leather is one of the UK's most successful thriller writers, an ebook and Sunday Times bestseller and author of the critically acclaimed Dan “Spider’ Shepherd series and the Jack Nightingale supernatural detective novels. Before becoming a novelist he was a journalist for more than ten years on newspapers such as The Times, the Daily Mirror, the Glasgow Herald, the Daily Mail and the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. He is one of the country’s most successful ebook authors and his ebooks have topped the Amazon Kindle charts in the UK and the US. In 2011 alone he sold more than 500,000 eBooks and was voted by The Bookseller magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the UK publishing world. Born in Manchester, he began writing full time in 1992. His bestsellers have been translated into fifteen languages. He has also written for television shows such as London's Burning, The Knock and the BBC's Murder in Mind series and two of his books, The Stretch and The Bombmaker, were filmed for TV. You can find out more from his website www.stephenleather.com and you can follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/stephenleather

Genres: Short Stories, Horror, Supernatural, Paranormal

51 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 1, 2012

About the author

Stephen Leather was a journalist for more than ten years on newspapers such as The Times, the Daily Mail and the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. His bestsellers have been translated into more than ten languages. He has also written for television shows such as London's Burning, The Knock and the BBC's Murder in Mind series. For much of 2011 his self-published eBooks - including The Bestseller, The Basement, Once Bitten and Dreamer's Cat - dominated the UK eBook bestseller lists and sold more than half a million copies. The Basement topped the Kindle charts in the UK and the US, and in total he has sold more than two million eBooks. His bestselling book The Chinaman was filmed as The Foreigner, starring Jackie Chan and Pierce Brosnan and grossing more than $100 million.

Reviews

[Cheryl · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a 4.25 🌟 read rounded ⬇️ to 4 🌟.

[FeedMyReads · Rating 4 out of 5]

Still Bleeding is a short story based around the supernatural detective Jack Nightingale being called to investigate a young girl being afflicted with the stigmata but is all as it seems? This is a well written short story that works well overall but a few little editing issues marked it down for me.

[Sarah Baines · Rating 3 out of 5]

I hate to say it but Still Bleeding is not my favourite Jack Nightingale story. Compared to the others I've read, it seemed a bit bland. It certainly wasn't creepy like the rest. That's not to say it's a bad book because it's not but it could have been better.

[martha s. williams · Rating 5 out of 5]

Still Bleeding

Lovely little short story about what might go on when very old organizations get too big for their britches. Most enjoyable and I wouldn't put it past em.

[Stephen Egan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brilliant as usual

Liked everything ,only dislike,too short
I love the whole Jack Nightingale series
Just can't get enough
I've read a lot of his other novels
Pure genius

[Adam · Rating 2 out of 5]

Didn’t really get into this one even if it was a short story. Good scene setting but found the storyline a bit dull. Somewhat disappointed as I’d heard great reviews about Stephen Leather’s books.

[James · Rating 4 out of 5]

Would have been a five star but disappointed with contiuity issues. In all the other books Jack Nightingale drinks Corona in a bottle with a slice of lime. This time when he goes for a drink with jenny it is a german beer. It is only when he meets the young girls uncle when he is introduced to Corona and his signature trick of pushing in the slice of lime, thumb over the top, tip up until lime reachs the bottom of the bottle. Sloppy writing there.
The story is good though. A young girl develops stigmata and claims to see the Virgin mary. She also heals her next door neighbours son who was suffering from leukemia.
The catholic church hire Jack to find her and she if she is a fraud.
Read the book before I spoil he story.

[Maxine · Rating 5 out of 5]

A brilliant Jack Nightingale short story, just to get my fix! I really hope there is another novel,as I love these stories so much.

[Lorraine Southern · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nifty little Nightingale short story :)

[Thelma Murray · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love Jack Nightingale so anything he is in is fine with me...whether the story is long or short!

[Vader · Rating 3 out of 5]

5 star - Perfect
4 star - i would recommend
3 star - good
2 star - struggled to complete
1 star - could not finish

[Psionmark · Rating 4 out of 5]

A nice bite sized chunk of Nightingale.