Cruelty Has A Human Heart: A DCI Will Blake Novel (DCI Will Blake Crime Mystery Thrillers Book 4) by J.E. Mayhew

Author:J.E. Mayhew [Mayhew, J.E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Obolus Books
Published: 2020-11-19T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 23

When Vikki Chinn had asked whether or not Blake wanted Leonard Hill’s girlfriend bringing in for a chat, Kath had smirked. Geri Sharpe wouldn’t be the kind of person you ‘brought in.’ She did have a record for prostitution, and possession but she’d also knocked out a police officer whilst resisting arrest and Kath noticed a complaint against her from a neighbour for smashing windows. Her name cropped up as a peripheral witness in numerous altercations and cases of public disorder.

Just out of courtesy, Kath tried to phone the number they had for her from Leonard Hill. A continuous tone told Kath that the phone was dead. Maybe ditched once she realised what Leonard was involved with. Kath hoped that Hill’s star witness had done a runner, to be honest. As far as she was concerned, they were wasting everyone’s time listening to the man’s desperate alibis. The last thing Kath wanted was for Leonard to walk out of the custody suite a free man. He didn’t deserve that.

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Harry Thorpe sipped at his whiskey and Jeff passed his own glass under his nose. Even though he’d been out for the count, he was pretty sure it was early in the morning. It was a fine whiskey, not cheap but at this time of day Jeff’s stomach lurched. He wondered how he was going to drink it without throwing up on Thorpe’s carpet. That might just stretch the man’s hospitality to the limit.

“God! What am I thinking?” Thorpe said suddenly, making Jeff jump and almost spill his drink. “Lads, get this man a bacon butty. He must be starving. You can’t enjoy that on an empty stomach.”

Jeff smiled. “Thanks, Mr Thorpe…”

“Harry. Call me Harry,” he said. “So where’s Laura been hiding since she left Kyle Quinlan?” he said it as though he was concerned for her welfare and Jeff started to worry that Thorpe had other motives for asking.

“I’m not sure,” Jeff said, honestly. “I’ll be straight with you, Harry, Will and I don’t see eye to eye all the time. So I don’t see much of him or her. I think she spends a lot of her time at Will’s in Rock Park. She has a flat in Wallasey somewhere.”

“Interesting,” Thorpe said, swirling his whiskey around in the glass. “Hiding in plain sight. Clever.”

“Can I ask,” Jeff said. “How did you know Kyle Quinlan and Laura?”

Thorpe weighed Jeff up. “This goes no further, right? I don’t want to open the book about Gambles and find my name plastered all over it.”

Jeff put the glass down and held up both hands. “I assure you Harry. I am the soul of discretion. I’m not sure it would ever get into the book, anyway. I think Gambles is just trying to stir up trouble for my brother.”

“Oh,” Thorpe said, looking slightly crestfallen. “I mean, you COULD write about it. Just don’t go naming names and all that.”

Jeff nodded and wondered if he was looking at another potential customer. ‘Jeff Blake, Biographer to the Underworld,’ had a certain ring to it.

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