Darkest Truths by J A Rowsell

Author:J A Rowsell [Rowsell, J A]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-12-30T16:00:00+00:00

When we arrive at the station, we are immediately shown to Detective Brown's desk to wait for him, James having been called away to do something else. Due to Dad being a frequent visitor because of his job, they saw no reason for us to stay in the overcrowded main reception area. Patience, not being my virtue and all that jazz, I end up pacing circuits around the area containing more unattended desks and annoying Dad to no end. Bored with the same circuit, I roam down one of the empty interconnecting hallways to find a wide-open door. Enticed toward it, I am contemplating whether to investigate when I find myself already outside it. Well, it is better than twiddling my thumbs out here. Peeping through the doorway, I discover multiple boards around the room containing various information, probably on a current case.

Wanting to examine everything in more detail, I double-check my surroundings to ensure no one is around before slipping into the room. Surely, they wouldn't have had the door wide open if it were out of bounds. With that thought in mind, I slip into the room and push the door closed slightly to obscure anyone's view of me.

Advancing to the first board, I view its contents and notice it is a board solely on the victim's details. There are seven in total, all women. Shifting to the next board, it discloses all the gruesome crime scene photos, nothing I haven't seen before. Moving onto the last board, I find it has a list of suspects.

Looking at the photos and the notes in more detail, I can see a connection between six of the seven victims on the board. The one they have noted as the first victim of the serial killer is actually not related to the case and was committed by someone entirely different, and by the looks of the corpse, it was a crime of passion. Whereas the murderer for the other six murders left a calling card.

"Kayla, you shouldn't be in here," Dad growls at me, standing by the door. "What do you think you're doing?"

"I would like to know that, too." Dad jumps at Detective Brown's appearance. Obviously, he had been oblivious to the sound of Brown's footsteps. "No one should be in here apart from the people on this case," he narrows his eyes on me in a failed attempt to show he is unhappy, but Dad seems to buy it, nearly breaking the detective's resolve. Dad, you're meant to be a lawyer and able to interpret someone when they are lying.

"Well, they shouldn't leave the door wide open for anyone to walk in then, should they?" I reply sarcastically, my eyes roving back to the crime scene photos. "Plus. They aren't doing a very good job if they didn't realise that this woman wasn't killed by the same person as these six," I tell him, pointing at the woman called Clare before waving my finger at the others, while taking in more details of the scenes in the photos on the board.

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