Above Suspicion by Lynda La Plante

Author:Lynda La Plante [Plante, Lynda La]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2011-04-18T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Anna tapped on Langton’s door. ‘It’s open,’ came his voice.

‘Ma’am?’

She turned and saw the hotel receptionist walking towards her.

‘This just came for Mr Langton.’ The receptionist extended a white envelope. ‘I need a signature: the courier is waiting downstairs. I’ve been trying to call Mr Langton’s room, but his phone was busy.’

Anna took the bulky envelope. She signed for it and was thanking the receptionist when Langton appeared at the door.

‘Is that it?’

She took a video cassette out of the package. ‘Yes. Does your TV have a video player? Mine doesn’t.’

‘Shit, I don’t know.’

Inside his room, Langton sat back on his heels and examined the TV set. Frustrated, he called reception and requested a video player urgently.

While Langton paced up and down, waiting for them to call back, Anna cast a look around his room: it was an untidy mess of discarded clothes, half-eaten hamburger and numerous empty cans of beer. There were wet towels trailing from the bathroom and piled up on the dressing-table were the contents of his pockets: coins, banknotes, receipts and his passport.

When the phone rang, Langton grabbed it. ‘That’s fine. I don’t care how much. Just get me one up here.’

He slammed the phone down, swearing.

‘Are you going to tell me what’s happened in London?’ she murmured. She took the wet towels into the bathroom. He must have left the shower running; there were puddles of water everywhere.

‘You don’t have to do that,’ he snapped, when she returned.

‘I know. I’m just doing it until you calm down.’

He slumped down on his bed with a sigh. ‘Well, they have another victim. They found her early this afternoon. So far, she is unidentified, but it’s the same scenario.’

‘Where?’

‘Just off the A3, not far from Leatherhead. Could be a copycat killing. I’ve told Barolli to see if we can bring back Mike Lewis. Shouldn’t be hard. Barolli says his baby is driving him nuts. We don’t have the case yet and he didn’t have many details. But it’s a fucking nightmare. The discovery is causing a lot of heat around our investigation; the media are rehashing our old press releases.’

He lit a cigarette.

‘Commander’s shitting herself. She’s been on the blower to Barolli all afternoon; said to try and get back tonight. I said it was impossible. As it is, we’re getting the first plane out tomorrow.’

He sat down on a stool by the dressing-table and started to flick through the stack of papers.

‘O’Reilly gave me the press back issues on Sadie. Apparently, where she was found is pretty notorious.’

‘Incongruous name, isn’t it: Roseland?’

‘Yeah. It’s just twelve miles from all the glittering, brand spanking new skyscrapers. All those nice new little houses we saw being built are just a stone’s throw away from crack dens and the hookers walk the street in broad daylight. There have been numerous murders in the same area, because of all the derelict houses. For a time, they also had a suspected serial killer on the loose.’

‘But only Sadie has the same MO as ours.

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