Death in London: A Nightshade Crime Thriller (Emma & Nightshade Mystery Series Book 1) by Peter Jay Black

Author:Peter Jay Black [Black, Peter Jay]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781838053543
Publisher: Oakbridge
Published: 2021-09-06T23:00:00+00:00

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Olivia kept her foot down as the Mini flew along New Oxford Street, straddling the lanes. They squeezed between two double-decker buses, scraping past with fractions of an inch on each side.

Horns and sirens blared, and a quick glance over her shoulder told Emma the police cars were still in pursuit, unfazed by Olivia’s reckless driving.

More car horns sounded as the Mini narrowly missed a central barrier, cut across several lanes of traffic, and plunged down Museum Street.

Emma tensed and hugged her knees. “Wrong way. Wrong way, Olivia.” An oncoming van flashed its lights, and the driver waved a fist at them.

Olivia wrenched the wheel over. The Mini popped onto the pavement with a spine-jarring bump. They darted across the entrance of a multistorey car park and dove between several trees planted in the concrete.

“You’re enjoying this, aren’t you?” Emma shouted.

“Pretty much, yeah.” Olivia grinned. “Thanks for asking.”

The Mini leaned as they took a hard right then dropped back onto the main road with another heavy bump.

Emma gripped her seat as they continued their breakneck flight down Shaftesbury Avenue. “Please pull over. You’re getting us into more trouble.”

“Can’t get much worse than being the prime suspect in a double murder.” Olivia yanked the wheel left and right, weaving in and out of cars, vans and buses. “By the way, who was the second victim? You haven’t told me.” Olivia ignored a set of traffic lights, and narrowly missed commuters, taxis and pedestrians.

“Uncle Martin,” Emma said.

Olivia glanced at her. “Oh, Em. I’m so sorry.” A moped pulled across the road in front of them and she swerved around it. “Don't worry,” Olivia said. “The cops can’t know for sure it’s you they’re chasing, and I bet they didn’t get a clear description. You’ll be fine.”

“As long as they don’t catch us,” Nightshade said.

Tyres screeched as the Mini barrelled across an intersection.

Emma pointed through the windscreen. “Take Charing Cross Road.” They shot down it, and she looked back to see a police car behind them.

Olivia’s eyes widened. “How did they find us again?”

Emma peered up at the sky. “Can’t see any helicopters or drones.”

“ANPR,” Nightshade said.

Emma looked back at her. “What?”

Nightshade gestured at a set of traffic lights as they whizzed through them. “The cameras on the lights. Automatic number-plate recognition. That’s how they’re tracking us. No real way to avoid them.”

They continued their reckless Cannonball Run past the Hippodrome and Leicester Square, and through another pedestrian crossing. People jumped clear and shouted as they passed, and still the police car kept up.

Olivia frowned into the rearview mirror. “We need to lose this idiot.”

They hurtled past the National Portrait Gallery and St Martin-in-the-Fields. Two police vans were parked nose to nose. Blue-and-white tape cordoned off the Café in the Crypt, and an officer stood guard.

Emma’s stomach churned. Have they pulled Uncle Martin out of that tank yet?

“Hold on,” Olivia shouted.

Emma faced the front as yet another set of red lights loomed before them, along with a line of cars.

Olivia drove onto the

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