Deadly Terror (Detective Zoe Finch Book 4) by Rachel McLean

Author:Rachel McLean [McLean, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ackroyd Publishing
Published: 2020-12-30T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Forty-One

Randle gestured to Zoe to stay behind as people peeled out of the briefing. She ignored the puzzled look Dawson gave her.

“Sir,” she said when they were alone.

“I hear you went to see Lesley.”

“I did.”

“How is she?”

“She’s… she’s recovering, sir. Better than I expected, to be honest.”

“Good. She’ll need to take some time off. We’ll have to find someone to head up this unit in the meantime. I can’t do it forever.”

“No, sir.”

She had a moment of panic: would he promote Dawson?

“D’you know who you’ll be bringing in, sir?”

“Not yet. I’ll let you know when I do, don’t worry.”

“Thank you.”

“Good. And another thing.”

“Sir?”

“Frank’s on the airport, you’re on the station. I suggest you stick to your own patch.”

“I was just trying to be helpful.”

“You haven’t examined the evidence and you don’t know the context. Stick to your own area of responsibility in future.”

“With respect, sir, I did go to the airport during the incident, so I do have some context. You took me there.”

“I know I took you. I wouldn’t forget a thing like that. But that was different. Incident response and investigation are entirely separate areas of work. Stick to finding out who the New Street bomber was. Your team are working social media?”

“Connie and Rhodri are trawling through all the photos and video they can find. There’s a hell of a lot to work through, most of it useless.”

“And you’re looking at narrowing down to images of the woman just before she detonated the bomb?”

“Not just then. Anything from when she entered the station to when the bomb went off. The building was quiet by then. I don’t imagine people would’ve been recording.”

“No.”

“And we’re trying to trace her steps backwards before she arrived at the station. Identify where she came from, using the CCTV trail.”

He frowned. “Any joy with that?”

“We’ve got her walking past the ICC, then the trail goes cold.”

“You have footage of her all the way from the convention centre to the station?” That was a twenty minute walk.

“We do. I’m trying to find anything from before that, maybe a residential address.”

He pursed his lips. “Did she stop on her route to the station? Talk to anyone?”

“No. She’s very determined, walks steadily. At that point, she doesn’t show any nerves at all.”

“Right.” He sighed. “Well, carry on seeing if you can get better quality images from the station. Report back to me as soon as you have anything.”

“Of course, sir.”

“Direct to me. Don’t wait for the briefing, this is important.”

“I understand.”

“Good.”

“Is that all, sir?”

“One more thing. You said you’re going to visit the witness again?”

“Yes.”

“Take Sergeant Osman with you. It’s good to have two sets of eyes and ears on this kind of thing.”

“I was planning to.”

“Good.” He nodded dismissal and she left the room. In the team office, Connie and Rhodri had opened another pack of Hobnobs and were both sitting in front of Connie’s computer. Ian sat alone at his own desk.

Zoe grabbed a biscuit. “You look as if you’ve got something.”

“I’m not sure, boss,” Connie said.

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