Fearful Symmetry by Morag Joss

Author:Morag Joss [Joss, Morag]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Mystery, Fiction
ISBN: 9780440335528
Google: 35kr6t_a_h4C
Amazon: 0440242428
Barnesnoble: 0440242428
Goodreads: 7004399
Publisher: Dell
Published: 1999-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 20

ANDREW’S GP TURNED out not to believe in miracle cures.

‘But look, I’m practically mobile. And pain-free, well, almost. It’s two days since the acupuncture. I’ve had acupuncture for it.’

‘Yes, I know, you said,’ the doctor replied.

‘But I’ve got to get back to work. You just have to declare me physically fit. Please. I promise I’ll be careful.’

‘Physically fit? Sorry, no can do. Could you chase a suspect? Make a difficult arrest?’

‘Well, no, but I hardly ever have to.’ Andrew knew the argument was lost.

‘Give it until next week. There’s been substantial tissue damage and it needs time. Be as active as you can without being silly. All right?’

Actually he was getting on quite fast at home, even managing to keep up the momentum, such as it was, in the Bevan enquiry. But they were so desperate for a lead now that they were chasing up and interviewing people with the most tenuous of connections to the dead woman. One of the last things he had done before his back went was to interview the deputy editor of a national newspaper who had a weekend flat in Camden Crescent. Yes, he had admitted, he brought his aged cat with him from London for the weekend although the lease forbade it. ‘He’s an old cat. He can’t be left in London all on his own.’ How had he felt, Andrew asked, when Miss Bevan had written to the Residents’ Association about it? The silver-haired man had turned on him a look of such friendly intelligence that he had hardly needed to go on to say that he wished he did have the time to get worked up about a petty complaint from a provincial harridan whom he had never, to his knowledge, actually met. ‘But next time I bring Andreas, I’ll be sure to take his collar off before I let him out. Thanks for the tip-off,’ he said, winking. As he left he had given Andrew a pitying look, which conveyed that he understood that Andrew was scraping the bottom of the barrel in the hope of progress.

Part of him was in no hurry to get back to work and confront the Giraldi case, about which he was being kept informed. He had already extricated himself from the front line of the investigation on the grounds that he was too close to those involved, but it was still painful to know that Jim might find himself up on a manslaughter charge. The enquiry was only just starting and it would be some months down the line, if he knew anything about the speed of progress within the CPS, but it was bad enough. Adele’s death was in one sense a tragic accident, but if a case could be made that Jim as an employer had failed to maintain a safe workplace then that case would have to be answered.

It was Friday now; by this afternoon it would be forty-eight hours since he had seen Sara. Yesterday she had not answered his call.

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