Clean Cut: An Anna Travis Mystery by Lynda La Plante

Author:Lynda La Plante [Plante, Lynda La]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, General, Mystery & Detective, Mystery Fiction, murder, Women Detectives - England - London, England, Murder - Investigation, Travis; Anna (Fictitious Character), Women Detectives, London, Investigation, Police Procedural, Women Sleuths
ISBN: 9781416586678
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2007-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

As soon as she got home, Anna sat down and wrote up all the new information she had acquired. It did not look much. The relationship between Idris and Eamon Krasiniqe might turn out to be important as a connection to Camorra; however, none of it looked like it was leading towards to the killer of Gail Sickert and her little daughter, nor did it connect to the death of Gail’s husband, Donald Summers–unless Camorra was the link between all the murders. If this was true, then Langton was not, as she had suspected, re-routing the murder enquiry for his own ends. Just as she accepted this, her doorbell rang.

Langton leaned against the doorframe.

‘I was going to bring you some chicken soup, but then I found out you were fucking lying. You’d better have a very good explanation.’

She led him into the lounge, her cheeks flushed. ‘Sit down,’ she said.

‘Thank you.’ He sat on the sofa and looked at the coffee-table loaded with her notes and files.

She sat opposite him. ‘How did you know?’

He looked up: he had planned to visit Krasiniqe himself, so had called the prison–only to be told that a DI Travis was already interviewing him. Langton stared at her.

‘What the fuck do you think you are doing?’

Anna hesitated. ‘I just felt I wasn’t doing enough.’

He shook his head. ‘Really.’

‘Yes, and I’m sorry–it was unethical of me.’

‘You can say that again.’ Langton rubbed his knee, and then leaned back, closing his eyes. ‘I could throw the book at you, Anna.’

‘I know.’

‘Any reason why you think I shouldn’t?’

Anna paused. ‘I have been very concerned about you.’

He opened his eyes.

‘You are taking on too much. It was obvious the other day and so, I just thought if I could do some legwork—’

‘If I had wanted you to do that, I would have asked! This was a bloody stupid and, as you said, unethical way of you so-called helping me. You simply took off, making enquiries without supervision, without permission and whilst lying about being ill; constantly calling into the incident room to see if there were any developments, while you were busy working on your own. You want to take over the investigation, is that it? You think I’m incapable or something? What is it with you, Anna? This has happened before. You got off lightly then, but I don’t know if I am going to accept the excuse that you were acting because of—’

‘You are sick,’ she interrupted him.

‘Not sick enough to allow anyone to take over my case without permission!’

There was a pause. Anna sat, head bowed.

‘I will think about what I am going to do with you, but you could be taken off the case.’

‘I was hoping no one would find out.’

He sighed. ‘Sometimes, Anna, your crass naivety stuns me. You think that because of your connections with me, you can do what you bloody well feel like doing.’

‘That isn’t true.’

‘Then what is the truth?’

Anna stood up. ‘I was afraid you were allowing the case to run out of control because of personal reasons.

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