A Traitor to Memory by Elizabeth George

Author:Elizabeth George [George, Elizabeth]
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780553386011
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 2010-05-30T09:58:00.437000+00:00

It didn't help matters that he knew the woman who'd died in his street in possession of his address. And it truly didn't help matters one iota that he'd once been involved no matter how peripherally with a heinous crime that had taken place when he'd lived under her roof.

He'd heard the shrieking that evening and he'd come running because he'd recognised who was crying out. When he'd got there, everyone else was there as well: the child's father and mother, the grandfather, the brother, Sarah-Jane Beckett, and Katja. "I do not leave her for more than a minute," she shrieked, frantically laying this information in front of everyone milling round the closed bathroom door. "I swear. I do not leave her for more than a minute!" And then looming behind her was Robson, the violin master, who grasped her by the shoulders and pulled her away. "You must believe me," she cried and continued to cry as he pulled her with him down the stairs and out of sight.

He hadn't known at first what was going on. He hadn't wanted to know and couldn't afford to know. He'd heard the argument between her and the parents, she'd told him she'd been sacked, and the last thing he wanted to consider was whether the argument, the sacking, and the reason for the sacking which he suspected but could not bear to contemplate were in any way related to what lay behind that bathroom door.

"James, what's going on?" Sarah-Jane Beckett's hand had slipped into his, clutching at him as she breathed the whisper. "Oh God, something hasn't happened to Sonia, has it?"

He'd looked at her and saw that her eyes were glittering, despite her sombre tone. But he hadn't wondered what that glitter meant. He'd only wondered how he could manage to get away from her and go to Katja.

"Take the boy," Richard Davies had instructed Sarah-Jane. "For God's sake, get Gideon out of here, Sarah."

She'd done as he commanded, taking the little white-faced boy into his bedroom where music was playing, issuing blithely forth as if nothing terrible was going on in the house.

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