‘Four deaths, and two missing persons, plus Sarah,’ I said. I waved a piece of paper, a print-out of an old newspaper report. ‘April Mather. Jumped naked from the top of Blacko Tower ten years ago. Thirty years old.’ I glanced at the press picture of a smiling woman with long blonde hair, her head thrown back. It seemed such a waste. ‘Naked?’ asked Carson. ‘So the report says.’ ‘And what the hell is Blacko Tower?’ ‘An old stone folly close to Pendle Hill,’ I replied. ‘Some people think it is connected to the Pendle witches, but it isn't. It is just what it looks like: a small tower on a hill.’ ‘What did the family say about it?’ asked Kinsella. I scanned the words quickly. ‘No direct quotes. She was married, one child, a boy. Her husband just wanted to be left to get over his grief undisturbed.’ ‘What about suspicious circumstances?’ ‘It doesn't say. Nothing about how she got onto Blacko Tower, or where she had been before then, or why she was naked.
