Her heart thudded, she started to pant, then to talk herself down. It was the sound of birds, ravens cawing from the woods, an alien sound, one she had not heard for a long, long time. The curtain was drawn and the fast recall of the evening made her feel good until she lo...
She knew that if she wanted to speak to Donna Reynolds again, or her sister Aisa, Gloria Lynne would most probably get on her high horse and object.‘Hi, Joan.’‘Morning, ma’am. How’d the enquiries go yesterday?’‘Nothing surprising but it’s a day I’d rather forget.’‘Dewar?’Anna avoided giving Joan ...
He unlocked the heavy-duty padlock he’d fitted to the garage door and, grabbing the handle, heaved it up on its metal rails. He had a quick look around before returning the few yards to his van and reversing it up to the open garage door. He got out and had another cursory look around before sque...
The moment Taffy was arrested, seeing him from the back of the wagon as they took him away, turning, that one last time, as Dillon and the boys saluted him, was a moment Dillon would never forget. There was still that flash of pride on the Welshman’s face, still that kind of ‘take any bugger on, ...