04 The Guilty Ones by Joy Ellis

Author:Joy Ellis
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Tags: Crime, Fiction
ISBN: 9781789310023
Publisher: Joffe Books
Published: 2018-03-12T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY

Very soon the interviews would begin. By now the police would have made all the right connections. They would know that the suicides were not what they seemed, and that the common denominator was the death of Lyndsay Ashcroft. Now they would be looking for someone who believed that the murder trial had failed them.

He stood up and went to pour himself a drink. It was strange to be so at ease, not to feel the need to cross the fens to his quiet place, or slip unnoticed into the church. For once, he was happy to remain at home and contemplate his next move. He sipped the bourbon, his favourite. Wild Turkey Rare Breed cost over fifty pounds a bottle, and was worth every penny. He liked the name too. Rare breed. Just like him.

He rested his feet on the coffee table, which was strewn with books and documents. He liked to study murder, especially the psychology of killers. Of course, he was looking for someone like him, but he was gradually coming to the conclusion that he was one of a kind, that his method was unprecedented. This was deeply satisfying. It took true genius to make your victims kill themselves.

He lifted his glass and drank a toast to himself. ‘Here’s to the creator of the complicated death!’

He hoped that the police would interview him. And if they did, should he extend the game and watch them chasing their tails? Or should he give Jackman all the information he needed? He slowly swirled the amber liquid, causing flickers of golden light to tremble in the crystal glass. Ultimately, he wanted Jackman to know. It was just a matter of when.

He placed the glass on a coaster, picked up a folder from the table and paged through his long-term strategy. By now it was quite a thick volume and all but complete. It was unfortunate that the judge who’d presided over the trial had recently succumbed to cirrhosis of the liver, but it was consoling to know that he had been the cause of the judge’s heavy liquor consumption. Years of constant irritation, the veiled threats to one’s family and friends do take their toll.

He grunted. He had almost forgotten his final dilemma. He had always wondered what would happen when his slow revenge had reached its climax. Now he knew.

He was too good.

This wasn’t his epilogue at all, it was his new beginning. It was impossible to give up now. He had found his reason for living. There was one small loose end to tie up, and then he would be his own man, free to start planning new enterprises.

He thought again of all the people he had come to know over the course of the years. People with complex lives and deep emotional bonds. He looked at the folder on his lap. There was a whole section on the Jackman family alone, and what he didn’t know about the detective’s work colleagues wasn’t worth knowing.

He stretched. Hmm.

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