Fury: by Celina Grace

Author:Celina Grace [Grace, Celina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B07CLBLL64
Publisher: Isaro Publishing Ltd
Published: 2018-06-09T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

“So, who did you disappear off with then?”

Chloe, sitting across from Kate, looked smug. “His name is Roman.”

“Roman?” Kate considered. “Interesting but…good. I like it. Was he the dark one?”

“Yep. With the beard.”

Kate nodded. “Impressive, nice work. Are you seeing him again?”

Chloe looked even more smug, if it were possible. “Got a date tomorrow.”

“I’m proud of you, bird.” Kate held up a fist in solidarity. “I am definitely considering this party a success.” She grinned at her friend, who winked back. “Now, let us turn our attention off this enjoyable subject and back onto work.”

She took a long pull of coffee and regarded her to-do list. Whitehaven, that was the first thing. She brought up the telephone number and began to dial. Then, a thought occurring to her, she put down the receiver and hurried over to Rav’s desk.

“Rav, hi. Any luck with finding the manufacturer of that statue yet?”

Rav looked up. “No, not yet. I’m trawling the internet though. Why?”

Kate pulled up a convenient chair and sat down. “It just occurred to me on the way to work. What if it’s homemade? I mean, somebody is a sculptor or an artist and they actually carved it themselves?”

Rav put up his eyebrows. “I hadn’t thought of that.” He pushed his chair back and walked over to the whiteboards where the crime scene photos were taped up. “Come on, we’ll have a look.”

Kate and Rav perused the photographs of the statue. Rav looked so closely his nose almost touched the paper. “It could be,” was his final conclusion. Kate peered again and nodded.

“I agree. It’s well done but it could be hand made.” She looked at Rav as a further thought occurred to her. “What if the killer made it?”

Rav’s eyebrows shot up again. “Yeah,” he said, slowly. “But…I’m not sure how much further that’s going to get us.”

“Search for sculptors, stonework artists, something like that?” Kate suggested.

“Yeah. Okay. That’s a possibility.”

Kate gave him a thumb up. “You can have that one for free.”

Rav grinned. Kate skipped back to her desk and reached for the telephone.

**

She spoke at some length with a DI Warner, who was chatty and warm, even if the resulting conversation didn’t exactly help her.

“Oh yeah, it was a bloody balls-up from start to finish,” DI Warner said. “Before my time here, of course,” he added, somewhat hastily to Kate’s mind. “But I’m not sure that you can consider Linda Scott a viable suspect. Those threats were made directly after the court case, when Greeling had just walked free. Emotions were running high on all sides.”

“Right,” Kate said, cursing silently in her mind. “So, she was never charged with anything?”

“No. No point. The poor woman had just lost her grand-daughter.”

“I hear she tried to sue the force?”

“No. Again, she threatened to. But it was never going to happen. She had no money, for a start.” DI Warner sighed. “There was a serious case review, lessons learned, you know the sort of thing.”

“Yes, I know,” said Kate. She

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