Exposure by Jan Sayer

Author:Jan Sayer [Sayer, Jan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-04-30T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 19

David Kettle silently put on his coat and some trainers and walked out to the car. He was tired of it all. Most of all, he was tired of being confused. His mind was playing tricks on him. He was innocent, and that was all he needed to say. He was sure he had never met this woman, and yet something about her was so familiar. Maybe she was in an advertising photograph he had processed. When you work closely on an image, it does become familiar. He resolved to stick to his mantra. He was innocent, but when you sat across the table from the police, there was an air of expectation; they wanted you to say something. They just sat there waiting and making you feel obliged to tell them something, anything, to make them go away. Perhaps he should ask for a lawyer. But that would make it seem like he was guilty. No, he was innocent, and that was all he needed to say. He was shown into the same empty sterile room as before and was offered coffee. A uniformed officer brought it in and waited on the other side of the room without speaking.

Bevan briefed the forensic team, and they were dispatched to get as much information as possible in the bleak, thin sunshine. The physical evidence, if any, would have been safe under the tarpaulin. The team would survey the area in detail. Bevan had asked for any footprints preserved under the protective cover to be recorded, and a footprint diagram be created. There was no dispute about whose prints they might find, but it was worth eliminating Kettle, the woman, and the paramedics, just in case someone else had been in the garden. The twins would be easy to spot if they had been playing out. The snow was not deep when the woman was found, and footprints might remain embedded in the icy ground. Bevan wondered if a pattern of that morning’s comings and goings could be drawn up. It was like choreography, like the steps of a dance laid out for the trained eye to detect. Maybe.

Madison prepared documents for the interview. She made a copy of the email to show David Kettle and notes of the questions she wanted to ask. Then she called Chris, David’s boss. Mona answered the call as she had expected, and after firmly stating her rank and name, she asked to be put through to the owner. She was pretty sure that Mona listened in to the calls, so she picked her words with care. It was an official call, she told him. David Kettle was assisting the police with their enquiries. Mr Kettle was there voluntarily to help work out what might have happened. Then she requested copies of David Kettle’s personal emails on the company computer going back for two years. There was a pause as Chris worked out if he had to comply. Madison was ready for him. Of course,

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