Instead, the whispered voice was one she had first heard only a few days ago. ‘Grace,’ Daniel Brinsmead said. ‘I hope I’m not disturbing you.’ ‘No,’ she said, sitting up in bed and glancing at the clock. It was 11 a.m. ‘How are you?’ ‘I wondered if you had any spare time this afternoon. I wanted ...
Clive’s phone call had broken the pleasure of the morning, the respite with her family before she started work. ‘There’s a dead woman waiting for you. Jacqueline Ryan.’ A sentence spoken as if it were a blunt instrument. He’d sent a team to the Royal Hotel to pick Ryan up but they’d arrived too l...
He read it over and said he would keep it. Once Louise had left, he rang Susie and asked her how Toby was. ‘Tim’s with him at the moment,’ she said, ‘I’ll check.’Eventually she was back on the line. ‘He’s okay, Paul. He is upset but he doesn’t want to talk to anyone about it.’‘I’m coming over to ...