title: An Army of Noses: A Spunky Murder Mystery (Volume 3)
author:  Holly L Lewitas 
description: Holly Lewitas loves both a good mystery and animals, so she decided to combine the two and created the Spunky Murder Mystery series. Holly is a registered nurse by training, an animal rescuer by nature, and a transplanted Yankee widow, now living in the South. Holly shares her home with her beloved rescued critters - the stars of her books.
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  # Chapter 1
  
  
  
  
  
  “Kill them.”
  
  
  The man holding the scroll looked up, hastily averting his eyes as they fell
  on the cold, remote face of the woman sitting on the throne high above him.
  “Your majesty?” He murmured. “Did you say...”
  
  
  “Kill them.” The woman repeated, in a flat tone. “What part of that didn’t you
  understand? We don’t have extra to feed useless mouths.”
  
  
  “But... they can be trained, surely.”
  
  
  The woman rolled her immaculately coiffed head to one side, meeting the eyes
  of a tall soldier standing ramrod straight nearby. “Kill him.” She motioned
  towards the man with her cleanly sculpted jaw.
  
  
  “Mistress.” The soldier drew his sword and strode towards the scribe. He
  ignored the look of stunned horror, and swept his arm back, whipping it
  forward and burying the blade to the hilt into the man’s chest.
  
  
  With a single gurgle, the scribe fell to the ground.
  
  
  The scroll rolled from his hand, tinkling across the stone floor. The soldier
  wiped his blade on the man’s gown and