Above Suspicion (Anna Travis Mysteries Book 1) by Lynda La Plante

Author:Lynda La Plante
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Touchstone
Published: 2006-01-03T05:00:00+00:00

Anna stood in front of the mirror and checked her own smile. Perhaps she should switch to that whitening toothpaste? She lay down on the hotel bed. If Daniels was about to undergo extensive dental surgery, he wouldn’t have cared where he left his teeth marks. Could someone be so calculating? So devious?

She recalled finding her father sitting with a glass of brandy and staring in the firelight. She was young at the time and she sat on his knee, trying to draw him back to her from the dark place he occupied sometimes. He gave her a sad smile when she asked what the matter was and gently drew the hair away from her face.

It was inconceivable that something could be wrong with her father. “Don’t you feel well?” she asked worriedly.

He rested his head for a brief second against his child’s shoulder.

“I’m fine, sweetheart. It’s just sometimes Daddy works with such twisted, devious souls that their sickness clings afterward, like a bad smell.”

“What does devious mean?”

He sipped his brandy. “Saying you didn’t do something when you know that you did; weaving lies to make everyone believe you didn’t do this thing, but you know that you did and you enjoy the fact that your lies have fooled everyone. That’s devious.”

“Did someone do something devious to you?” she asked.

“Yes.”

He said there was a man who had sworn he never hurt one little girl and because they had believed him, another little girl got hurt.

Years later, Anna found out from her mother that he was talking about a child killer, a case that had traumatized him deeply. Ever since then, the word “devious” had a powerful memory association, which she now attached to Alan Daniels.

The door was rapped so hard that Anna almost shot out of her bed. She had been sleeping naked, so she grabbed a large bath towel on her way to the door.

“Who is it?” she asked.

“Me,” Langton said.

Anna unlocked her door. She was still tucking the towel tightly around her chest. He was leaning drunkenly against the frame. He waved the notes she had slipped under his door.

“So, this Klein guy came up trumps? The bastard planted those dental records in his apartment, right?”

She took a step back. “I’d say it’s a possibility.”

“Brilliant! Bloody brilliant!”

“Do you want me to order some coffee?”

“Nope, going to crash out. G’night.”

“G’night.”

He tottered off down the corridor. She watched, peeking round her door, as he attempted to slot in the card to open his room door: there were three swipes and some swearing and cursing before the green light bleeped and he disappeared inside. She shut her door, sighing: even if she had been stark naked when he appeared at her door, he probably wouldn’t have noticed.

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