But I couldn’t. It was why she didn’t want me to call her out of the blue, why she preferred to be emailed first. It was why her voice in our calls and the voice on Wendy Fisher’s answerphone were different. It was why Wendy didn’t look anything like Lynda Korin, and yet the woman I’d talked to o...
I pulled up alongside it, turned off the engine and got out.Inside it smelled of piss and damp.The road was lonely, lined on both sides by high hedges, but the rain had stopped and now there was a break in the clouds, like a hole punctured in a ceiling. As I fed some coins into the slot, I could ...
On the ground, knees up to my chest. A thin shaft of light escaped between the curtains in the bedroom and shone across the bed, flashing in the dresser mirror. Outside, next door, I could hear Liz talking. I looked at my watch. 9.44. I’d been in the same position for over...
I headed downstairs and ordered a steak sandwich. While I was waiting, my phone started buzzing. It was Ewan Tasker calling about Jill's husband. I was tempted not to answer, not because I didn't want to speak to him, but because I didn't want another case to add to my workload minutes after a ma...
The first, Iain Penny, was one of the dominant numbers on Sam’s records, and Julia had listed him as one of Sam’s best friends. He was in his late thirties, pale and tubby, but well groomed. I reintroduced myself to him and told him what I did. It was basically an exercise in making him feel good...
What Remains 63We waited, rain continuing to beat against the trees, drumming against the leaves, against the canopy. There were four huge windows on the front of the shell that had once been St David’s Children’s Home, all boarded up. What I was more interested in was an extension on the side of...
I knew he’d been drinking even before he stumbled into the living room and collapsed on to the sofa. He looked between me and the two computers—Paul and Annabel’s—still sitting on the table in the corner, and then to the laptop perched on my knees. As his eyes moved around the room, they shifted ...