Dance With Death: A British Murder Mystery (The Wild Fens Murder Mystery Series Book 8) by Jack Cartwright

Author:Jack Cartwright [Cartwright, Jack]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Publisher: Chestnut Press
Published: 2022-12-26T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE

“How are you feeling?” Anna asked as she pushed through the door to the fire escape stairwell into the ground floor corridor.

Jenny followed, carrying a blue file. “I’m alright. I just feel a bit set back. Do you know what I mean?”

“It’s knocked your confidence?”

“I just need to get back on the bike,” Jenny explained.

“What actually happened? Did he hit you?”

“No, nothing like that,” Jenny said. “I heard the sirens and I figured uniform were close by. So, I ran into the alleyway and smashed straight into him. He must have been running at full pelt. Knocked me flying.”

“And I suppose he must have heard the sirens too and legged it back to his house, hoping we’d be running around the streets looking for him?”

“I suppose so. To be honest, the next minute or so was a blur. Until you came, that is.”

“Well, if whatever happens, we can charge him for assaulting a police officer.”

“No,” Jenny said when they came to interview room one. She dropped her voice to a whisper. “I don’t want to push forward with that.”

“But, Jenny–”

“I don’t want it on my record,” she said. “I don’t want people knowing.”

“It’s nothing to be embarrassed about.”

“I know. I just…” she said, clearly having some difficulty finding the words. “I just want to forget about it.”

Anna studied her, noting the way she couldn’t meet her eye to eye.

“Alright,” she said. “If that’s what you want.”

“It is.”

“We’d better hope he talks then,” Anna said, as the door at the far end of the corridor opened up and Sergeant Priest leaned through.

“All yours, Anna,” he called out in his heavy Yorkshire accent. “Room one. He’s ready and waiting.”

“Legal rep?”

“Didn’t want it,” Priest said.

“Alright, thank you,” Anna said, and with one hand on the door handle, she turned to Jenny. “Ready to get back on the horse?”

Jenny nodded.

“Yep. Let’s do this.”

They pushed through into the room, finding Adam Frost seated in one of the chairs and a uniform waiting patiently behind the door.

“Thanks,” Anna said to him. “You can leave now.”

The uniform nodded a thanks and left the room, closing the door behind him, while Anna and Jenny prepared for the interview. Jenny began by setting up the recording while Anna flicked through the files.

Neither said a word and the silence, as Anna had hoped, seemed to heighten Frost’s anxiety.

“This is a bit much, isn’t it?” he said, to which Anna said nothing. She made a point of reordering the paperwork in her file, while Frost fidgeted opposite her. “I declined the offer of legal support.”

Again, Anna said nothing, at least until Jenny hit the button to initiate the recording and a loud buzzer commenced for a few seconds.

Anna announced the date and time and then listed those present. Finally, she took a deep breath and stared at Frost.

“Now then, Mr Frost. Do you understand why you’re here?”

“Assaulting a police officer, you said. But I didn’t mean to.”

“You didn’t mean to assault a police officer?” Anna asked.

“No. It was an accident.”

“And how did that accident happen?”

“She was in my way.

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