To be quite honest, he felt more than a little nervous at the forthcoming encounter. The building had seen better days, and a threadbare carpet did little to improve the first impression. The door to flat thirty-one, on the other hand, looked quite new. He reflected that it was, in all probabilit...
It’s very pretty and all that, but, let’s face it, it’s the back of beyond.’ Five minutes earlier, they had turned off the busy A38 trunk road and now found themselves plunged into a totally different world of narrow winding lanes, woodland, rivers and hills. So far the only other vehicle they ha...
It sounds weird enough to be right up your street.’ ‘Am I that weird?’ Katie looked up from the Situations Vacant pages of the newspaper where she had been hunting for, well, just about any job that was going. She had even briefly considered one advert looking for volunteers to join the crew of a...
They also ripped out the front window and substituted a sheet of plywood until new windows could be made up. They sprayed everything with a powerful chemical and put up signs prohibiting entry to the building for forty-eight hours. On Friday the water company phoned to inform her that the men to ...
Monday dragged. Tom checked the train times from London but, as Exeter is served by two different lines, there was too much choice of trains for him to have any clear idea of when Ros would return. He’d picked up The Case of the Velvet Ball Gown on several occasions. But he couldn’t find the cour...
There were two of them, both stocky, powerful-looking men with the broadest of smiles. They looked over the collection of belongings Annie wanted to move and, to her relief, decided everything would fit in the van without any trouble in just one journey. It took several hours to move all Annie’s ...
The bedroom where she had slept had been luxurious and immaculate. The bathroom had evidently been recently refurbished, and she had enjoyed an excellent shower before cleaning her teeth and getting into the big bed. The night was very warm and, although she’d started out with a T-shirt as a nigh...