07 Murder on the Farm by Jane Adams

Author:Jane Adams
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Mystery, Detective, Sleuths, &, Fiction, General, Women
Publisher: Severn House Publishers Ltd
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

‘Did she ever mention a man called Philip Soames?’

Trent frowned and narrowed his eyes as though trying to access a memory and finding it a physical strain. ‘Ex-boyfriend,’ he said at last. ‘She mentioned him once, a few months before she … before she was killed. Said he’d suddenly reappeared in her life and she didn’t seem too happy about it.’

‘So, if I suggested that she’d invited him back into her life?’

‘I’d say you were mistaken. Grossly so.’

‘How did she seem when she spoke about him. Did she give any details?’

Trent looked closely at Mac. ‘Is he a suspect? No, you wouldn’t tell me even if he was, of course. I’d say she was shaken by him. Uneasy. Not scared, exactly, but certainly not happy to think he was close by and might come visiting.’

‘And did she give any impression that he had? Come visiting I mean.’

Trent thought about it. ‘I got the impression that she’d seen him and that he’d seen her. Beyond that, I really couldn’t say.’

Mac nodded thoughtfully. ‘A couple of weeks ago the children stayed over at Daphne’s house and Ellen was alone. Something frightened her enough to make her run out of her house and across the fields to the Richardses’ cottage. Do you know the Richardses?’

Trent nodded. ‘Frightened her? What frightened her?’

‘She never mentioned this? According to the Richardses she arrived at their door in a very distressed state.’

‘Never. She never told me anything about that.’

He seemed, Mac thought, very put out. ‘She was scared, they said. But didn’t want them to call the police. The thing is, this incident happened only a couple of weeks before someone killed her.’

‘Did the Richardses say what frightened her?’

‘Silent phone calls, then someone prowling around the house. A window was broken and she was almost certain that someone got inside.’

‘And the Richardses never called the police? Ellen didn’t summon help?’

‘The phone was in the kitchen. She thought she heard someone in there so she got out through the living room window and ran.’

‘And she never told me. Why didn’t she tell me? I thought she counted me as a friend. Why didn’t she come to me that night? I’m as close as the Richardses.’

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