Girls on Film: (DI Angus Henderson 7) by Iain Cameron

Author:Iain Cameron [Cameron, Iain]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-07-31T22:00:00+00:00

TWENTY-THREE

Henderson returned home late, a meeting with the team to discuss the connections between Castle Hill Girl and Cindy Longhurst had kept him at the office. The facts were irrefutable: the two women had been killed by the same gun, and pictures of the latest victim appeared on Cindy’s computer.

The same gun suggested the same shooter and the similar state of the two victims’ bodies, both beaten and kept in similar dirty conditions, implied they were both kept in the same place. The team had also bandied about motives for the killings; drugs and prostitution, as discussed with Sally Graham, plus money laundering, blackmail and all the rest of the headings from the serious crimes handbook.

The exercise wasn’t such a waste of time because not knowing the name of the shooter, if they could find out the activity he or she was involved in, the team would be half-way towards discovering their identity. Alas, one main motive did not present itself. They didn’t know if Cindy and their new victim were killed for the same reasons, or if Cindy was killed for photographing something and Castle Hill Girl for being involved in something else.

They needed more and he now focused the investigation on two fronts. One, a team would continue looking through the photographs in Cindy’s studio, trying to find some unguarded pictures of their second victim and her companions, something to try and identify their location. In essence, trying to uncover the revealing photographs they believed the kidnappers were trying to find when they kidnapped Cindy.

The second focus of the investigation was on trying to discover the identity of their new victim. Fingerprint analysis had uncovered nothing on the database so, at great expense, and bringing a frown to the face of CI Edwards, she authorised the victim’s DNA to be fast-tracked. If it didn’t trigger recognition by the PNC, they would circulate her details to European police forces as PC Phil Bentley, the team’s expert on the female form, believed she looked East European.

‘What time do you call this?’ Rachel said as he stopped in the hall to take off his jacket.

‘I was delayed. We’ve had a new development in the case and the team meeting went on longer than expected.’

‘I was expecting you home hours ago, your dinner will be stone cold.’

‘I’ll stick it in the microwave.’

‘Do what the hell you like,’ she said walking back into the lounge.

He headed into the kitchen. It looked clean and tidy as if nothing had ever been cooked there, his plate of whatever it was sitting beneath the protection of a sheet of kitchen paper. He lifted it to find a large helping of chicken in a tomato sauce with a pile of penne beside it. Heating a dish of pasta in the microwave hadn’t worked for him in the past as it usually came out too hard, but he was too tired to think of a better solution.

While waiting for it to heat, he took a seat at the table and reached for a copy of The Argus lying there.

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