Fellside by Carey M. R

Author:Carey, M. R. [Carey, M. R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Horror, Fantasy, Mystery, thriller, Paranormal, Crime
ISBN: 9780316300285
Google: zSRRCgAAQBAJ
Amazon: 0316300284
Goodreads: 26030697
Publisher: Orbit
Published: 2016-04-04T07:00:00+00:00

51

After the court granted Moulson leave to appeal, Paul Levine visited her two or three times in successive weeks to talk strategy. But Moulson mostly wanted to talk about Alex Beech.

She’d been trawling through all those trial documents and depositions, looking for any clue as to who the nice girl and the nasty girl might be. There weren’t many quality candidates, but she’d kept at it and now she had a shortlist of sorts. There were quite a few teenage girls who’d lived in the same low-rise block or in one of its near neighbours and who had had a witness statement taken at the time of the initial investigation. They weren’t called at the trial because none of them knew Moulson or had anything particular to say about her, good or bad. But any one of them could have known Alex Beech.

She asked Levine to do some cross-checking. “Maybe some of them babysat him, or went to school with him. But it wouldn’t have to be that. Any history he had with girls who were older than him. Cousins, neighbours, anyone.”

It was easy to see that Paul was baffled. He’d already told her that the main thrust for the appeal was going to be attacking the conviction on the grounds of mental incapacity and poking at Street’s testimony to show that he could have done more to mitigate the damage. If they were very lucky, they might get the conviction overturned, but that was an outside chance. What they were really hoping for was to get a reduction of Moulson’s sentence by arguing that (a) there was a lack of intent and (b) she wasn’t solely to blame. But none of this required investigating the dead boy’s friends and enemies.

“I mean, don’t get me wrong, I want to help,” he said. And she knew he meant it. He’d been really alarmed by her fresh injuries, had insisted on taking photos of them. He wanted to put pressure on the governor to get her put into solitary for her own protection, but Moulson told him to leave it alone. He kept reassuring her of his good intentions, but she knew he was also trying very hard to shift her thoughts on to another track. “It’s just… we’ve only got a limited amount of time. Anything I do to chase up this stuff you’re talking about will take away from the time I give to… to the central planks of our argument.”

“You mean to the things that actually matter.”

“I mean that I need to do the things that will help you. That’s my job.”

“This will help me,” Moulson told him. “I can’t explain how, but it’s relevant. Please, Paul.”

She used his name consciously, tactically, remembering how it had felt when Alex used hers. She put her hand on his and stared into his eyes. She needed this. If leaning on Levine’s emotions a little would make a difference, she would do it, however shitty she felt about it afterwards.

“Can you give me a clue?” he begged.

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