All the Rage (DI Fawley) by Cara Hunter

Author:Cara Hunter [Hunter, Cara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780241985120
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2019-12-18T16:00:00+00:00

‘Are you sure you’ll be OK?’ says Somer, putting on the handbrake and turning to Fiona Blake. There’s a uniformed officer on the doorstep of 87 Windermere Avenue, and two outside-broadcast vans parked opposite, but the press appear to be keeping a tactful distance. For now.

‘If you need anything, you can call me. Any time, OK? Even if it’s just for some company.’

Fiona nods. ‘Thank you but I’ll probably be OK. Yasmin’s been fantastic and Patsie’s going to stay over. It’ll be nice having her around. Not sitting there in silence, wondering what to do with myself.’

Somer nods. ‘She seems like a nice girl.’

‘She is. They all are.’

‘I promise I’ll call you,’ Somer says as Fiona gets out of the car. ‘If there’s any news.’

* * *

Telephone interview with Charlotte Collyer

5 April 2018, 8.15 a.m.

On the call, DC E. Somer

ES: I’m Detective Constable Erica Somer – the switchboard said you have some information for us?

CC: I saw the TV thing last night – about Sasha Blake. I drive along there a lot, the Marston Ferry Road, I mean. What with the school and work and the gym.

ES: Did you see something? Did you see Sasha?

CC: No, sorry, I’ve never seen her before. No – it’s what people have been saying on Twitter – about that other girl. The one they said got taken in a van on April the 1st? I’ve been thinking about it and I’m sure it was the same day.

ES: What was the same day?

CC: I was a bit late for Pilates – I’d usually have been going past there at least fifteen minutes before. That’s why I remember the time – I kept looking at my watch and getting agitated – you know what it’s like. Sorry, I’m gabbling now. What I mean is, I think I saw a van that morning. Last Monday, I mean. I remember there was a police car up ahead with the siren on and everyone was slowing down, and then I heard a screech of brakes and there was a van coming past really fast on the other side of the road.

ES: Did you see where it came from?

CC: No, sorry.

ES: Could it have been from the allotments?

CC: God – is that where it happened? Well, yes, it could have been. I was a bit too far back to see.

ES: Did you see the driver?

CC: Not really. Though I think he had some sort of cap.

ES: A baseball cap?

CC: Yes – that sort of thing. Pulled down low.

ES: Was he white, black?

CC: Definitely white but that was about all. It all happened really quickly.

ES: What about the van – what do you remember about that?

* * *

‘And that’s it – that’s all?’

Somer shrugs. ‘Sorry.’

‘OK,’ says Baxter with a heavy sigh, ‘tell me again?’

‘It was a white van, with a logo on the side shaped like a shell.’

‘But no company name?’

Somer shakes her head. ‘Not that she saw. It all happened too quickly – I reckon we’re lucky she saw that much.

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