Evil Intent by Kate Charles

Author:Kate Charles [Kate Charles]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780749011970
Publisher: Allison & Busby
Published: 2012-05-25T14:00:00+00:00

On the surface, at any rate, normality had reasserted itself in the Underwood household. Routines were resumed: Vincent was busier than ever with church services, and Marigold was once again lunching and spending evenings out with her friends. The only references to Father Jonah’s murder were indirect, as Vincent kept Marigold apprised of his campaign with the Bishop. ‘I don’t know how he can possibly expect me to carry on without help,’ he complained after each fruitless phone call. ‘I mean, how am I supposed to have High Mass without a deacon?’

But while Vincent was away at church each morning, Marigold went out to the newsagents. She avoided their usual newsagent, the one who delivered their copy of the Telegraph each morning. Instead she went rather farther afield, to an anonymous shop just off Oxford Street. There she would buy a copy of every daily domestic paper, then hail a taxi to take her home with her burden. Back at home, in the privacy of her bedroom, she combed through the papers and clipped out any item having to do with the murder. Already she had quite a collection.

Sunday morning’s paper yielded a rich harvest as well. The broadsheets had sober reports of the murder as part of their weekly news overviews, and the tabloids continued with their attempts to find a fresh and sensational angle.

The Globe on Sunday once again featured a story by Lilith Noone, with the usual photo of Father Jonah blown up large under the screaming headline ‘Did This Priest Deserve to Die?’

She had, it seemed, spoken to Richard Grant, ‘the respected Vicar of Christ Church, Westbourne Terrace’. He had expressed the opinion that Father Jonah’s murder demonstrated God’s hatred for idolatry and Romish practices.

‘Even if, as Richard Grant believes, this murder was God’s judgement on faulty theology,’ the article concluded, ‘it was carried out by human hands. The police have yet to discover whose hands they were.’

Marigold’s own hands shook as she wielded the scissors.

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