Blind Fury by Lynda La Plante

Author:Lynda La Plante [Plante, Lynda La]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2010-08-26T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Where the fuck have you been all weekend?” Barolli greeted her angrily.

“I was with friends. I didn’t expect to be needed, and if you ever speak to me like that again, as your superior officer, I will place you on a disciplinary report.”

“I’m sorry. I thought you’d have your mobile with you. It came in late Saturday night.”

“Have we an identity? Mike said something about you’d got the bride.”

“He was being diplomatic, since you did all the tattoo business, but as no one could get hold of you and your landline is screwed . . .”

“I had to get a new number, unlisted. I’ll give it to the office manager. So—have we got the girl identified?”

Barolli got out two sheets and said they had two girls who fit the description; both had been married on the same day, both were dark-haired and in their early twenties. “Mike is checking them out now. He’s in with the interpreter, who, I’ve got to say, worked her shriveled butt off all weekend.”

Anna took off her coat, wanting to hear more details, but Barbara signaled that there was a call for Barolli on line two.

“You look very refreshed,” Barbara remarked to Anna.

“Thank you.”

“Have a nice weekend?”

“Yes, I did, actually.”

“Joan and me have square eyes, but we’ve finished the entire load of Swell Blinds contacts and—”

Barolli gave a yell as he placed down the receiver. “The anonymous caller just rang the TV station—she has agreed to come in to see us. Bloody marvelous! It’s all happening this morning!”

He went off whistling as Anna checked her voice mail and opened up her computer. She jumped when Mike Lewis’s office door banged open and he strode over to the incident board, prodded the picture of the victim from the blue-blanket case, and began to write: Bibiana Nowak married Marek Ryszard in Krakow and number two is Dorota, who married Stanislav Pelagia in Warsaw. Both girls were aged twenty-two in 2002, both were dark-haired and around the same height, five feet five, again matching our victim, and neither has been seen for some time.

Anna joined him and asked if both girls were still married. It was more likely their victim was either divorced or separated, since the wedding date on the tattoo had been covered up.

“We’re just running checks, but because we’ve got blurred e-mail pictures, it could be either one of them.”

Fifteen minutes later, they received information that they could delete Bibiana Ryszard. She had been traced so was still alive and still married.

Half an hour went by before they received the news that Dorota Pelagia had still not been traced, but they had tracked down her husband. He was in prison and had been for seven years, charged with armed robbery.

The officials in Poland were trying to locate Dorota’s family. Coming in via e-mail were two pictures of the young woman on her wedding day. She was wearing a short white dress and white shoes and stood holding a small bouquet. She looked shy and had a sweet soft smile.

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