A Snowball's Chance in Hell (DCI Logan Crime Thrillers Book 9) by JD Kirk

Author:JD Kirk [Kirk, JD]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Zertex Crime
Published: 2020-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

Ben was giving some serious thought to eating a second Garibaldi when the email came through. It turned up innocuously enough, with a faint ping the only fanfare announcing its arrival in his inbox.

He’d had enough of looking at reports for the moment, and the ping held promise of a distraction, even if only a momentary one.

He stared blankly at the keyboard, struggling to remember the combination of keys Hamza had shown him that would instantly bring up the email program.

“It’s much quicker to do it like this, sir,” the DS had told him, after the fourth or fifth demonstration in as many minutes. “Saves you having to click the mouse. You just need these two keys.”

Now, thirty seconds of staring at the keyboard later, and none the wiser as to which keys Hamza had told him to press, Ben clicked the mouse.

The PC chugged and whirred for a moment, then the screen changed to show his inbox. The top line was in bold, signalling a correspondence that hadn’t yet been read.

Ben adjusted his glasses and looked more closely. It was an internal email from another Police Scotland address, and had just a single word as the subject line:

‘Finger.’

Ben picked up the biscuit and took a nibble while he read the contents of the email. It was short and to the point, promising a full report to follow, but giving him a heads up on something the sender—one of the forensics bods—thought would be of interest.

Crumbs fell like tiny hailstones onto the keyboard, getting lost between the gaps in the keys and the trenches below as Ben read to the end of the short email. It was saying… Wait. What was it saying…?

He read it a second time, more slowly.

Then a third time, just to be on the safe side.

“Jesus Christ,” he spat halfway through a fourth and final skim of the text, spraying yet more expensive technology with bits of half-chewed Garibaldi biscuit. “Surely that can’t be right?”

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