Gravely Concerned: A Black Beacons Murder Mystery (DCI Evan Warlow Crime Thriller Book 5) by Rhys Dylan

Author:Rhys Dylan [Dylan, Rhys]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wyrmwood Books
Published: 2022-10-31T16:00:00+00:00

‘It’s on the news again,’ Pat Munro called from the living room of number ten Beili Road.

In the kitchen, butter-smeared knife in hand, Jaydon made eyes to the ceiling. ‘Stop watching it, Mum. Put something else on. Look on catch-up for that thing on wossername, that flaky actress. You like things like that.’

‘How do you say his name, that missing boy? Ocean is it?’

Jaydon stopped buttering the sliced bread and, knife in hand, walked into the living room. Her mother sat on the sofa, legs up on a covered stool, feet in striped socks that looked the worse for wear. A plate that had contained four biscuits now sat empty on the side table next to her.

‘Have you got the remote?’ Jaydon asked.

‘No, don’t change it. I want to see. That poor little kid.’ Pat looked across at her daughter and Jaydon knew what was coming. Knew and felt her irritation bubble to the surface even before her mother had uttered a single word.

‘We ought to—’

Jaydon made a frustrated growling noise. ‘Stop it, Mum. Please. We are not going to the police. If they call again, we say nothing, okay?’

‘Yeah, but—’

‘Oh my God, how many times have we got to go through this?’

Pat held up a phone. ‘It’s even on Facebook. They know about the camouflage jacket.’

Jaydon shut her eyes and huffed out a sigh ‘Have you read it properly?’

‘It’s this Green Man—’

‘Have you read it?’

Pat blinked and shook her head.

‘No. I didn’t think you had.’

‘I can’t concentrate because of my medication,’ Pat snapped back.

‘I know, Mum. I know. That’s why you shouldn’t read just the headlines. It’s clickbait.’

Pat stared at her daughter; her mouth turned down.

She needs her roots done, thought Jaydon, glancing at the dark line that ran from crown to fringe like the parting of the seas in her mother’s otherwise bleached hair. And she needed to lay off the biscuits, judging by the extra chin that wobbled under her once pretty face.

Pat’s eyes drifted to the knife in Jaydon’s hands. Shaking her head, Jaydon walked back into the kitchen and threw it down on the countertop before walking back in to her mother.

‘We can’t say anything to the police. You know what will happen. You’ve seen it on TV. Like that making a murderer stuff. The police just want someone to blame. And once they find out who we are, we’ll need to move again. Because you know who will come looking. So yeah, it was stupid of T to go out in his jacket, but that’s all he did, Mum. Went out for a walk. My fault as much as his. I didn’t twig them kids would be out too. Otherwise, I’d of stopped him.’

‘But what if it was him who took this Ocean? What if it was?’

‘It wasn’t, Mum. Simple as that, okay?’ Jaydon walked over and sat next to her mother on the sofa and held her hand. ‘With a bit of luck, this will all blow over. They’ll find this kid hiding in a barn or something and it’ll be okay.

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