Blood Evidence by Rhiannon D'Averc

Author:Rhiannon D'Averc [D'Averc, Rhiannon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-08-14T16:00:00+00:00

17 – Ram

“Two left to go,” I say.

“Three, if you count Cameron,” Will reminds me.

“Let’s just see whether Fairlight will let us have a crack at him first. We should be able to catch them both at dinner.”

I am sure that Will is appalled at the suggestion of yet another restaurant meal – high on the calories and low on the nutrition – but I’m getting mighty used to it. I could do with this kind of service every day at home.

There’s not a whole lot of afternoon left, so we head back to the Inn and settle in at a snug area beside the bar. Furnished with cushions and decorated with blankets, it looks comfortable enough.

I’m about to sit down when one of the cushions moves, opens a single baleful green eye in my direction, then stretches in a leisurely fashion and walks away, tail held aloft.

I think twice about sitting down on a pile of white cat hair, and switch to a chair set aside. Will gives me a knowing and irritated look before taking the seat I had eschewed.

“It’s not looking great so far,” he muses aloud.

“For Cameron, you mean?”

“He was the last one to see her. He’d been caught stealing earlier in the day, and seems to have some kind of rivalry going with Johnny. He’d had enough champagne to get him drunk, and to top it all off, he got up in the morning and confessed.”

“But there’s still the blood,” I insist. “Your instincts are right. Why wasn’t it all over the sheets? All over his clothes? The whole room? How did he manage to carry out that kind of attack and stumble to bed drunk, too drunk to remember what he had done, but make no mess?”

We are considering this question in silence when Beverley and Richard, talking animatedly to one another, walk past us. Beverley slides behind the bar before we have the chance to react, and we just manage to jump up and stop Richard before he totters off towards the dancefloor area.

“I wonder if we could have a word?” I say, quietly and calmly. Richard’s already had enough of a shock this week. The last thing he needs is added pressure.

“Oh, well, I…” he says, looking around for Beverley.

“Beverley, too,” I add. “It will just take a minute.”

“Come on, Richard,” Beverley says, taking him by the arm and leading him back to where we were sat. They take the sofa, and I lean against the bar while Will takes my chair.

“I’d heard you were asking some questions for the police,” Beverley says. “I was wondering when you would get around to us.”

I smile. “You’re the last on our list,” I say.

“We’ll help if we can, but we already told them everything we know,” Richard says, shrugging his shoulders up and down in a movement that is exaggerated by the shake of his elderly body.

“If you could start just by running us through your day,” Will suggests.

“I was up for six,” Richard

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