Green for Danger - Volume II of the Operation Jigsaw Trilogy by Mark Hayden

Author:Mark Hayden [Hayden, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Thriller
Publisher: Paw Press
Published: 2014-06-09T00:00:00+00:00

It was fairly easy to spot the surveillance because only one car followed Patrick’s taxi on to the Elijah estate. When he lingered a few seconds to pay the driver and catch up on some gossip, the car had no choice but to go past them. He waited a minute by the front door, and it reappeared up the road. He gave the officers a wave. This was only the start. By tomorrow they’d have the experts on the job, and there would be no point in looking for them – always safest to assume they’re there.

Janet opened the door and gave him a wordless hug. He took off his coat and went into the airless lounge.

Maria was sitting on her own, dabbing her eyes and probably wondering why Dermot’s brother hadn’t turned up from London yet. Fran was on the couch with two of their daughters. Elizabeth was leaning on her shoulder, and Helen was trying to get a conversation going. Ma was where Ma always was: in her chair by the fire. Janet had already disappeared into the kitchen to make tea, and the hiss of the gas fire was slowly replaced by the thunder of the kettle.

Fran stood up after lowering Elizabeth gently to the couch. The poor little one had drifted off to sleep.

‘They came round not ten minutes ago,’ she said. ‘They wanted me to go in and give a statement there and then but I told them to arrest me or come back in an hour.’

He folded her in his arms and whispered in her ear. ‘You’re the best, love, and you know that. You’ll be fine.’

He heard a theatrical sniff from behind him, and realised that he hadn’t actually spoken to Maria. He placed a dining chair next to his sister-in-law so that he could put his arm around her. ‘I’m so sorry, love. So sorry. He was such a good lad, and a credit to you and his father.’

Maria started crying again, and Patrick gave her another tissue from the box on the table.

‘Is it because of what happened to Donal?’ she said. From across the room, Fran shot him a look. ‘You know, with Dermot and Robbie being found together … is it because of what happened to Donal and Solly?’

‘That was eighteen years ago, love. Whatever happened, it’s because of what they got up to today, not what their fathers got up to last century.’

Maria pushed his arm off. ‘Dermot didn’t get up to anything. It was you who got up to things and you who got Dermot involved in the business. What was he doing there, Pat? What was he doing in that warehouse?’

He treated it as a rhetorical question, and tried to comfort her again. At first she resisted, but she took the comfort of his arms, as she had done when Donal was knifed in the heart. Francesca and Helen were both staring at her, mother and daughter united in their contempt for a woman who would accept comfort instead of a straight answer.

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