We put the call on speaker-phone so we could all hear her. She had some good news: the police had been in touch with Irina Makarios and they’d traced the writer of the threatening letter. It had turned out to be a hoax, just as they’d thought. It was written by some random embittered loser who had a grudge against all women since his marriage had broken up. He had no connection whatsoever to the family or friends of Thomas Radic. Well now he’d see the inside of a jail, serve him bloody well right. And Helen’s family could stop worrying about it. Helen herself had not been told, of course.Mum also dropped a bombshell. She and Dad had been talking about the future and that they’d decided to pack in their job in the Territory and come back to the city to live. ‘That way,’ she said, ‘we can all be together again.’ I wasn’t sure what I thought of that. I did miss them, but on the other hand I had quite a lot of freedom living with Claire. She did keep an eye on me but it was a big-sister sort of thing, not a mum thing.
