Death Comes to Call by Clare Chase

Author:Clare Chase [Chase, Clare]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781786818119
Publisher: Bookouture
Published: 2019-02-19T16:00:00+00:00

Five minutes later, Blake and Tara were in the car again, on their way back to join Max and Megan. Blake had suggested they pick up some sandwiches to keep them all going. He wasn’t looking forward to returning to the artist’s empty house; he found the gloomy atmosphere oppressive. The weather wasn’t helping, either. It was still raining and the sides of the streets were awash with water.

‘So, we know Freya Cross had a text from Luke, asking her to go and meet him the night she left home,’ Tara said. ‘The professor was right; she wasn’t just after time to herself. And whatever she was up to involved carrying something to their meet-up – but likely not overnight gear.’

Blake nodded as he upped the speed of the windscreen wipers. ‘Right. And someone – we assume her killer – removed her holdall. It might have contained something valuable, or something the killer didn’t want found.’ He swore. ‘There’s something I’m not getting here. I can’t work out how it all ties together.’

‘Zach Cross could have followed Freya if he was jealous and suspected her of seeing Luke. It would have been perfectly natural.’

‘Agreed.’

‘He could have found them together, stunned Freya with the stone Agneta thinks was used and then killed Luke, before finishing the job with his wife. He’d be big enough to move Luke’s body without all that much trouble.’

Blake nodded. ‘He could have taken his car round to the Lammas Land side of the nature reserve and picked up Luke’s body from there, then gone and dumped it somewhere, hoping we’d assume that Luke had killed Freya, then done a runner.’ He sighed. ‘What are the chances of Fleming letting us apply to get his car checked over, based on our clever speculation?’

Tara give him a sidelong glance. ‘Slim.’

She was slightly more optimistic than he was, clearly. For a moment they drove on in silence, but then Blake heard Tara curse under her breath.

‘What?’

‘Breaking news on Not Now’s website. Cambridge artist and rumoured lover of murder victim, Freya Cross, sought by police.’

Blake swore harder than she had. With Patrick Wilkins on suspension he’d thought they’d have put a stop to this sort of leak. Clearly not. If he ever found out who’d passed the information on this time he’d be tempted to break the law himself, in the course of meting out justice.

He’d been planning to run a statement and appeal for information on the man’s whereabouts once he’d spoken to Fleming, but he’d wanted to manage the news carefully, not have it come out in this haphazard way. Publicising the unsubstantiated rumour of his relationship with Freya Cross could cause them problems on several counts.

‘Ask Max to ring them,’ he said. ‘I’d like him to press them on their source.’

There was a pause, during which he guessed Tara was considering arguing that she should be the one to tackle her old employer, but then thinking better of it. ‘Okay. I’ll call him.’

As she exchanged news with Max, Blake mused on who could have contacted Not Now.

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