Changing Lara by Anna Jacobs

Author:Anna Jacobs [Anna Jacobs]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780749023706
Publisher: Allison & Busby
Published: 2019-08-01T16:00:00+00:00

It was a relief when Ross rapped on her kitchen window and held up five fingers. Lara rushed round checking that all the windows were closed and the patio doors locked before grabbing her jacket.

She was looking forward to checking out the antiques centre and making a start on understanding current prices of old china and small silver items. It’d be good to have something else to occupy her thoughts.

Just as she was leaving the house her phone rang. She nearly didn’t answer it, but it might be the police. She saw Ross waiting outside and held up the phone as she put it to her ear.

‘Lara? Donald Metcalf here.’

‘Oh, hi.’ Thank goodness she’d answered it. She waited, hardly able to breathe, so desperate was she for news, any news.

‘Just thought you’d like to know. We’re pretty certain we’ve traced your accountant to a cross-Channel ferry. Bit of luck that a colleague was checking something else out and happened to recognise Crichton on the CCTV footage. We’ve checked out vehicle registrations for that crossing and he wasn’t listed as owning any of them. And he certainly didn’t travel under his own name. We have a list of passport holders, but it’ll take a while to check them all out.’

‘Pity.’

‘Unfortunately, we don’t know where he went in Europe after that, though it’s most likely he went to Paris first. It’s such a hub for rail travel. We didn’t see any sign of his wife, though, and she wasn’t at the London office that day, either.’

‘Thanks for telling me, anyway. I appreciate that.’

‘I’ll always keep you informed, Lara. We do understand what this sort of theft means to the victims. It strikes people very hard to have a lifetime’s hard work wiped out. We’re doing our best for you, I promise.’

To her annoyance, she was so close to tears she gulped loudly enough for him to have heard, but he didn’t comment, thank goodness.

‘I’ll get back to you if we find anything else out. It’s a good sign that we’ve got something to start from, gives us a better chance of finding him.’

‘Just one thing, Donald. You said Sandra wasn’t on the ferry. Look, she had shoulder-length brown hair and if I were her, I’d probably have changed the style completely. Try blonde or red hair and a short style.’

‘We’ve only got some CCTV from the office block with her on it, brown hair and all, and there were no photos of either of them at their home, so she’s going to be harder to trace. It’s a bit of a pain how women can change their hairstyles and colours so easily and nobody blinks an eye. Look, you’ll know what she looks like better than we do if she was his receptionist. What sort of clothes does she wear?’

‘She always wore classic, understated outfits when she was in the office. Mousy-looking, I thought. Maybe you should look out for her to be wearing a lot of bling and fashionable clothes.’

‘Worth a try.

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