Clean Break by Val McDermid

Author:Val McDermid [McDermid, Val]
Language: deu
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Suspense
ISBN: 9781932859225
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 1995-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

I pulled up on the forecourt of the shops in Street Lane at five to seven in Bill’s Saab turbo convertible. One of the first rules of surveillance is to vary the vehicle you’re sitting around in. Luckily, when Bill had gone off to Australia, he’d left me with a set of keys for his house and the car. I’d left Shelley’s Rover in Bill’s garage, with a message on the office answering machine telling her to hang on to the coupé for the time being. I felt sure this was a hardship she’d be able to bear, always supposing she didn’t leap to the conclusion that the reason I wasn’t back with her Rover was that her beloved heap was in some garage being restored to its former glory.

It had been a toss-up whose house I was going to sit outside this morning. On the one hand, if I didn’t keep close tabs on Nicholas Turner, having the buckle bugged would have been a complete waste of time. On the other hand, Simon Morley’s little adventures in cleaning had already cost a man his life. I’d lain awake, tossing and turning to the point where Richard, who normally sleeps like a man in persistent vegetative state, had sat up in bed and demanded to know what was going on. He’d eventually persuaded me to talk the dilemma over with him, something I always used to do but had been avoiding since his involvement in the car fraud case caused us both so much grief.

“You’ve got to go after the fence,” he finally said.

“Why?”

“Because if you lose him this time, you’ll never get a second bite of the cherry. Sooner or later, someone’s going to spot that your buckle isn’t just a fake but a bugged fake, and then you’re going to be on someone’s most wanted list. And if this Simon Morley really

I smacked his shoulder. “I’ve told you before about the people you hang out with.”

He grinned. “Only joking. You know I’m allergic to anything stronger than draw. Anyway, Brannigan, you should go for the fence.”

“You sure?” I asked, still doubtful.

“I’m sure.”

“And what about the ten grand?”

Richard shrugged. “Hang on to it for now. We all need walking-around money.”

“It’s a lot to be walking around with. Shouldn’t I be paying it back to the insurance company, or somebody?”

“They don’t know you’ve got it, they’re not going to miss it. Maybe you should just look on it as an early Christmas bonus for Mortensen and Brannigan.”

“I don’t know …”

“Trust me. I’m not a doctor,” he said, wrapping his arms around me and nuzzling the back of my neck. Instant gooseflesh. You can’t fight your gonads. I hadn’t even wanted to try. Michael who?

The Turner household came to life around half past seven. The curtains in the master bedroom opened, and I caught a glimpse of Nicholas in his dressing gown. This time I’d come fully equipped for surveillance. I had a video camera in the well of the

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