Dead Time by Anne Cassidy

Author:Anne Cassidy
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub, mobi
Tags: Juvenile Fiction, Mysteries & Detective Stories, General
ISBN: 9781408818695
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2012-05-09T23:00:00+00:00

Seventeen

Rose sat in the back of the Mini as Skeggsie drove towards Twickenham. The space was tiny, particularly as Joshua had moved his seat back as far as it would go so that his legs would fit in the front. Rose was behind Skeggsie and she’d unlaced her boots and put her feet up on the seat. Her socks were vivid yellow. There was music playing, a band she liked. Every now and again the satnav gave an instruction. Neither Skeggsie nor Joshua said much so she rested her head against the seat and drifted off into her own thoughts.

Now bear left. Then two hundred yards later turn right.

She had a lot to think about.

Now turn right.

Someone had written notes to Emma and Lewis asking them to be at the cemetery at six. Could it have been Bee Bee? She pictured Bee Bee in the cafeteria that day when Lewis Proctor had pretended to stab himself with a plastic knife. She’d been standing stiffly like someone in a production, as if she was taking part in a play, her silver boots and her jewellery giving her a glittery theatrical look. Emma said she was mad about Lewis, had been for years.

Could she be responsible for Emma’s death?

At the roundabout bear left. Then take a sharp right turn.

Perhaps it had nothing to do with her or Lewis. Maybe it was something completely different, unconnected. Possibly Ricky Harris had been involved in something illegal and Emma had known about it. Perhaps, once Ricky was killed, Emma was just next on the list. The killer – whoever it was – had followed Emma to the cemetery and picked a moment when she was on her own, not knowing that she was due to meet anyone. Maybe that person had slipped in and out of the rose garden without anyone seeing them.

She thought back to the rose garden the night before and felt a squirming sensation. Joshua and her pretending to be boyfriend and girlfriend. Holding each other in a clumsy clinch. She’d forced him into it, trying to keep Sherry Baxter from coming face to face with her. It had been awkward afterwards, Joshua walking three or four paces ahead, clearly irritated. But by the time they got out of the cemetery and were walking along Cuttings Lane he seemed to have forgotten it.

It was just a bit of play-acting. It was the kind of thing that children did.

So why did she have this odd feeling about it?

In quarter of a mile keep right towards the A402.

She forced her mind back to the really important thing. The murders. Everything she knew about them was second-hand, gossip, bits of CCTV footage. The police would have a fuller picture with scene of crime evidence, CCTV, witness statements and information about what Ricky Harris and his mates were up to. They may well know exactly what was going on and have a suspect in mind. She, who had been at each scene of crime, who had

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