Dead in the Water by Wilfred Jules

Author:Wilfred Jules [Jules, Wilfred]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-05-04T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 17

At eleven minutes past seven pm Acting DCI Ianthe Seymour parked her Audi Q3 in the parking lot of the ASDA superstore at Brighton Marina. She got out and made her way across the road to the roundabout. She crossed it and went up the stairs to the main walkway along the marina. CCTV had picked up Bert Devos do exactly that. He had parked his car in the parking lot of the ASDA rather than in the west or east parking lot. It was not quite clear why he had done so, but Ianthe thought there might be a simple explanation. The parking lot of the store was out in the open while the other were covered parking lots. She herself was not always comfortable parking at night in a covered parking lot where there was no security and you never knew which homeless people or drug addicts would be using the cover the parking lot provided.

She walked past the big Wetherspoons on her right and entered the marina proper, following the boardwalk past all the other pubs and restaurants now on her left. She liked the view of the yachts in the evening sun. She was not much of a yachtie herself, although she had been out a few times on a sailing yacht, but she appreciated the nautical atmosphere. Brighton Marina was the biggest marina in the country and even assumed to be the biggest in Europe, even though she actually knew that title was contested by the marina at Nieuwpoort in Belgium.

She turned into the East Jetty, walking down the ramp to the gate, which she found properly locked. She noticed the CCTV camera watching the gate but knew that this particular camera had been malfunctioning on the night of the murder, as was the one further down that was monitoring the finger piers. Conveniently so for the killer. She saw it would not be impossible for an agile person to climb the fence on either extremity, but it would have been in full view of anyone watching by coincidence from the flats that practically semi-circled the marina. Even though they might have neglected to contact marina security or the police about such an event, it was hard to imagine they would not have mentioned it to the police officers that had interviewed all the marina residents. That meant, she thought, the killer must have been on the jetty inside the gate already, either as one of the boat owners, or a guest of a boat owner. It was also not inconceivable that someone might have slipped through with a boat owner posing as someone who had forgotten their key fob onboard for instance. But again, it was unlikely the key fob owners would not have remembered such an event when interviewed. They had all been contacted and no one had lost their key fob either. Another possibility was that the killer was someone who worked at the marina. Perhaps even with Marina Security. Gerry Nichols had found the body, but Ianthe thought he was an unlikely suspect.

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