Blood Country: A Scottish Crime Thriller (Murdo Shaw Scottish Crime Thrillers Book 1) by Katherine Forvie

Author:Katherine Forvie [Forvie, Katherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-01-30T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

Shaw filled the kettle and walked through to the main office. Everyone was there, and it occurred to him that it’d be a good moment to catch up with them all.

“Think youse could all take five?” Shaw said in a loud enough voice to get everyone looking his way. “I want to say a couple of things.”

There was a bit of shuffling and a bit of movement as Veitch and Gastrell and Glinda and Compton pushed away from the desks they’d all started to think of as theirs, and gathered round Shaw in the middle of the office.

“Thanks, everyone,” Shaw said, adding then, “Just want to have a quick word on where we are and what we’ve got and... Why we’re doing what we’re doing, really.”

When everyone had murmured their ayes and no bothers and okays, Shaw began.

“So, aye,” Shaw began. “This is… This is different, isn’t it? Evie Duart’s case. The usual rules don’t apply here,” he said. “The usual rules, as in, how we’d typically go about looking for a missing child,” he clarified. “And I just want to say thanks to you all for being here and doing all you’re doing. Thanks for coming in early and staying late. And thanks for sticking with an investigation that’s… well, that’s not clear cut. And that’s also upsetting and, aye, frustrating. We’re nibbling at the edges of this thing. We’re trying to build up a picture,” - here, Shaw indicated the wall, and all the pins and pictures and sticky notes and bits of red string all over it - “of who the players are and who’s running the show. And even though Kirsty and Billy have told us they know who’s got their daughter? I want us to keep chipping away at the edges so that we maximise the chances of getting Evie home. I want us to keep going with the belt and braces stuff. And I want us to keep trying to figure out what the bigger picture is - and who the bastards splatted all over it are….”

Shaw went quiet for a moment and looked round the room. “And I suppose I’m saying all this cause, well, I want to know if youse all feel the same…”

Again, Shaw went quiet and looked round the room.

He saw thumbs-ups and nods. Heard murmurs of aye and yeah and too bloody right.

So he looked at each individual in turn, then clapped his hands together and said, “Right. Good. Okay.”

And then he walked to his desk and sat down and started sifting through a stack of files.

An hour later, when he glanced up from his screen, he saw that Gastrell was limping away from his desk.

And then he noticed the mug.

The wingnut had made him a cup of tea.

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