He’d done all that Willow had asked him. He could get on a plane and be home that afternoon, ready to drop Cassie back at Duncan’s before arriving in Unst by the last ferry. And ready to share a glass of whisky with Willow before she disappeared to bed. The thought tempted him. But he’d promised Fran’s mother a whole day with their granddaughter and knew he couldn’t leave the city yet.He was walking away from Cilla’s grand apartment, thinking that he might wander along the Thames and take some time to explore the city, when his phone rang.‘Inspector?’ A young voice, female. He tried to remember where he’d heard it before. ‘This is Alice from Bright Star. We met yesterday evening. I worked with Eleanor.’‘Of course.’ To his left there was a large Victorian church with a black smoke-stained steeple and an overgrown graveyard. He slipped through the gate to get away from the traffic noise and landed on a wooden bench in the shade. A bunch of dead flowers lay next to a tilted headstone by the path.
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