Gemini & Flowers Mysteries 02 - Family Life by Jonathan Gregory

Author:Jonathan Gregory
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
Publisher: Jonathan Gregory
Published: 2013-02-03T05:00:00+00:00

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Tom closed the study door and sat at the desk. He held the usb stick in his hand, considering his next move. He knew that he should have handed it in to the police straight away, but he was torn between building a new business and his old profession. He decided that, once he had checked it out, he would take it across the road and give it to James Stonely. He slid it into the laptop and waited a few moments for the icon to appear.

He liked this room. It had been Simon Ash’s and Mike’s father’s before he had taken it over. It had white shelves around two walls, a mantelpiece and an open fire, currently unlit and fine cornices and a centre light that hung down from a white plaster rose of complex design. The floor was made of old oak planks and it had two large windows overlooking the front drive, gateway and the street.

All the original furniture had been sold off by Ash senior apparently, so the desk was a glass topped affair Mike had bought from a design shop in Brighton three years before. The chair was a one-off too, a black wooden chair with arms, more of a carver than a desk chair. However, the arms fitted under the tabletop so Tom could rest his elbows on the surface, and it was very comfortable even if it didn’t move. He had put a lot of his possessions in here, as they didn’t fit anywhere else in the Manor house, including a pod speaker for his iPhone. He had put up some pictures from his flat in London; one of him in his police uniform after passing out from Henley Police College, one of his Mini by the Thames and one of his parents standing on the wall that ran around York, where they still lived. He hadn’t been to see them in over a year. Perhaps he should. He spoke to his mother about once a month and he knew they were both disappointed he had left the police service. He hadn’t told them he was living with a man yet; that would add to their despondency, he supposed. They had never been close, and they had not been a priority of his since he left school at eighteen. He didn’t know why he had put them picture up, but it was a good shot with York Minster in the background, taken one spring so the

cherry trees were out.

The icon came up and he clicked on it. There were about six hundred files listed, all jpegs. Picture files. Closing his eyes for a moment to prepare, he clicked the mouse on the first. It was of a little girl in a one-piece swimsuit, standing against a white background with her feet on a wooden floor. Harmless so far, apart from the slightly drowsy look in the girl’s eyes. He recognised her as Tricia Maddocks from the other pictures of her he had seen in the kitchen at her home.

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