Begging to Die by Graham Masterton

Author:Graham Masterton [Masterton, Graham]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781784976460
Publisher: Head of Zeus

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As soon as she had sat down in her office, Moirin came in with a cappuccino for her, and a sticky raspberry bun from Heaven’s Cakes in the English Market.

‘Holy Mary, Moirin, I’m trying to keep my weight down.’

‘Well, so am I, ma’am, but I bought two of them and if I hadn’t have given one of them to you, I would have been forced to eat it myself.’

‘Have you thought of buying only the one?’

‘Not really. That would make it look as if I had no friends.’

Chief Superintendent Brendan O’Kane tapped at her door. He was looking spruce and freshly showered in his crisp white shirt and Katie could smell that he had sprayed on a little too much Eau Sauvage. At least it wasn’t Erou, she thought.

‘So like, I understand that Lupul wasn’t at home.’

‘No, sir. That’s if it was him who was staying there. But as Sergeant O’Farrell rightly pointed out, why did they leave so quick if they weren’t the fellows we were looking for?’

‘True. So what’s the plan now?’

‘The house wasn’t nearly big enough to accommodate all of the beggars that Lupul brought over from Romania, so he must be renting or squatting another property somewhere else. What we need to do now is find that.’

‘Any clues?’

‘None so far. But we’re keeping a close watch on all the beggars and rough sleepers around the city, as far as we can anyway, and it will take only one of them to lead us back there.’

‘Okay, grand. Have you heard from Dr Kelley about our ex-boxer yet?’

‘Not yet. But his head was in a desperate mess so it will probably take her some time to piece it all back together again. You know how scrupulous she is. She’ll even be scraping the bits of brain off his blankets and weighing them, just to make sure there isn’t too little or too much.’

‘And I heard that girl passed away. The one who was rescued from the river.’

‘Yes. It could have been that she was starved of oxygen for so long that she didn’t have a chance of surviving. All the same, I’ll be after asking Dr Kelley to carry out a post mortem on her, too, just to be certain about the cause of death.’

‘It could only have been natural causes, though, couldn’t it? If you can call being pushed into the river a natural cause.’

‘I’m not sure. I have a funny feeling about it, that’s all.’

Brendan raised his eyebrows. ‘I remember you at Templemore, you and your funny feelings.’

Katie didn’t answer that. Instead, she said, ‘I went to see Padragain Scanlan yesterday evening. She was knocked about something desperate but it looks like she’s going to be okay. I’m still waiting to hear about Nicholas Markey. His skull was fractured and all the bones in his hands were shattered so I don’t know how long it’s going to take him to recover. If he doesn’t regain the full use of his hands – well, we’ll just have to wait and see and say a prayer to Saint Stanislaus Kostka.

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