Dead Girl Found by Giles Ekins

Author:Giles Ekins [Ekins, Giles]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Terminal Velocity - A Next Chapter Imprint
Published: 2020-12-27T22:00:00+00:00

Forty-Five

‘Hard day, love? Wendy Endcliffe asked her husband Brian, DC Brian Endcliffe, kissing him on the cheek. It was gone 7.30 by the time he got home, wet, hungry, tired and weary after a long and frustrating day.

His frustrations had been exacerbated when he was unable to find a parking spot within a hundred yards of his house. The rain had been lashing down and although he had a raincoat, he had forgotten to put his umbrella in the boot of the green Ford Focus and was soaked by the time he arrived home.

When his house on Adelaide Street, an Edwardian mid-terrace, had been built just prior to WW1, the idea that occupants of those houses might one day all have cars, or even more than one car was a distant fantasy and no provision had been given for garages or off street parking. So, although Brian and Wendy loved the house, parking was a constant nightmare, especially difficult for Wendy trying to manage the shopping and twin boys in their double pushchair. And the number of times passing vehicles bumped and scraped parked cars on the street was a constant (and expensive) annoyance.

But Brian and Wendy would have it no other way. Their daughter Hayley was able to attend one of the most popular junior schools in the town, a fact which kept the house prices rising, and their house, although narrow fronted, was, like the Tardis, seemingly much larger on the inside.

Once they had converted the attic into a large master bedroom with an en-suite shower, they had five bedrooms, Hayley had her own room, the twins Noah and Daniel currently shared a room but would have their own rooms in due course and the fifth room served as an office for Brian and a sewing room for Wendy. With an off-shot kitchen extension, the house was more than adequate to cater for their growing family.

Mostly furnished from Ikea, (all they could afford when setting up the home although Wendy had been eyeing up a mustard coloured velvet sofa and footstool in Pearson’s’ furniture showroom) the house was a comfortable home for Brian to return to after the stresses of his day.

All day he had been butting up against intransigent bureaucracy, trying to establish whether her school or the Social Services department had expressed concerns about possible abuse of Julia by her father.

He made an appointment with Mr Arnold Raybone, the headmaster at Grange Manor Comprehensive, the school attended by Julia Jarrett (and Chloe Macbeth).

Grange Manor Grammar School had once been in the top three grammar schools in West Garside, with a solid reputation for the sciences and had sent many bright pupils from all backgrounds, including the High Green sink estate, to Oxford and Cambridge as well as universities such as Sheffield. Leeds and Durham. One ex pupil rose to be a junior minister in Margaret Thatcher’s government whilst another became a senior professor at the London School of Economics. Manor Grange Grammar School had been a

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