DARK JUSTICE by Taylor Leon

Author:Taylor Leon [Leon, Taylor]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2016-11-10T00:00:00+00:00

25

‘JUDITH RILEY?’

The woman in the doorway was in her mid-fifties, with obviously dyed platinum hair. That only helped her look marginally younger than the deep creases on her face and heavy eye make-up suggested.

Cade introduced us both and asked if we could come in.

She looked at us uncertainly. ‘This is about that policeman that was killed, isn’t it? Detective Tanner, the one who shot Mark.’

‘Please Mrs Riley,’ Cade asked. ‘Can we speak inside?’

She leaned out her doorway and glanced down both sides of the street to see if anyone was watching us. No reason why they should be unless they were regular snoopers. We’d done nothing to draw any attention. Our car was unmarked and we were in plain clothes.

‘It’s Miss Riley,’ she said looking at us pointedly, before her face softened. ‘Okay, you’d better come in.’

She led us through into the front room where we sat down opposite her.

‘I really have no idea what you want,’ she said.

Cade leaned forward. ‘Miss Riley,’ he said. ‘There’s a strong possibility that Detective Tanner’s murder was in direct response to your son’s shooting several years ago.’

She shrugged and lifted a lighter and a pack of cigarettes off the glass coffee table. ‘Maybe it was,’ she said lighting up. ‘So what?’

Cade glanced at me and then back at Miss Riley. ‘You knew the people Mark associated with back then. Has anyone appeared on the scene recently, or maybe contacted you?’

‘No,’ she replied bluntly, after taking a smoke. ‘But do you think I would help you anyway? Mark was my son.’

There was nowhere for us to go after that comment. If she wasn’t prepared to co-operate then we were better off calling it a day here.

There were photos on the sideboard. One large group photo taken on a British beach on a cold, grey day. Everyone was wrapped in coats, but still smiling. I could pick out Judith, younger then with long hair. Three kids were playing in front of the adults. The older one, I thought, was Mark.

I tilted the picture towards Judith.

‘One of these Mark?’ I asked.

She nodded. ‘Mark’s in the middle, my other son Carl is on the right. The other kid is their cousin Georgie.’

I looked back at the picture.

‘My ex is on my left,’ she continued. ‘The guy next to him is his brother Harry, Georgie’s Dad. Harry is who Lee lived with in Spain, before he died.

I replaced the photo on the mantel piece.

‘Do you ever hear from your ex-husband’s brother?’

She shook her head. ‘As far as I know, he’s still out in Spain.’

The front door opened and then slammed shut.

‘We’re in here!’ she called out,

A large bearded guy appeared in the doorway. His light blue shirt was stretched tightly over his beer belly, his jeans pulled up tight underneath.

‘Chris,’ she said. ‘These are detectives. They’re looking into the deaths of the policeman and his daughter that we saw on the news.’

He looked at us suspiciously. A big bear of a guy. He was holding a supermarket bag.

‘Picked up a few bits,’ he said to Judith Riley.

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