He Knows Your Secrets by Charlie Gallagher

Author:Charlie Gallagher
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: JOFFE BOOKS crime, mysteries and thrillers
Published: 2019-11-27T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 23

Tuesday

Maddie leant back in her chair and ran her hand firmly down her face, pulling her skin taut as she did so. Her view of the ceiling was replaced by one of PC Vince Arnold, who was now standing in front of her desk.

‘Shit, love, you’ve got a lot going for you but don’t be pulling that face again. It’s enough to make me look elsewhere and I know how devastated that would make you!’ Vince’s grin was as big as everything else about him. His uniform clung to broad shoulders, his load vest with baton, radio and cuffs jutting out of it at different points, making him look bigger still, pushed out as it was by the stab vest underneath. The stubble of a few days before was now starting to take shape as an established beard.

‘Strange that you should come to me talking about looks. What’s with the beard, Vince? It’s starting to look like you’ve done that on purpose. You look like a hipster.’

‘Hipster, I’ll take. Action Man was what the lads on section said.’

Maddie clicked her fingers. ‘Action Man! I don’t see it. Give it a bit more growth and you might get to sweaty biker?’

‘Like I said, Mads . . . I could go off you!’

‘I heard you were seeing someone, anyway. Is that true? Has your hopeless flirting with me become all the more inappropriate?’

‘Did you? I’m sorry, Mads, I didn’t want you to hear about it this way. I was going to tell you myself only you get to the point where you just don’t want to be breaking no more hearts, you know what I mean?’

Maddie laughed hard and Vince joined in, his laughter booming around Major Crime’s empty office. It was still early morning, too early for any of her detective colleagues.

‘I very rarely know what you mean, Vince.’ Maddie said.

‘Anyway, you wanted to see me? I got your text. Is that what this is all about? You just wanted to check for yourself that I was off the market?’

‘Well yeah, I mean that was the main reason. I had some other stuff I planned to ask you about, too, though. You know . . . to make it seem like I didn’t care. I guess I might as well still ask you. See if I can keep up the façade.’

‘To save face?’

‘Exactly. So, tell me what you know about Freddie Rickman?’

Vince’s face flickered in surprise. ‘Freddie Rickman!’ He licked his lips and seemed to be considering it carefully. ‘Official or unofficial?’

‘I’ve checked the systems. I know all the official stuff. Do you think I would be asking you if I wanted that?’

‘I suppose not. And you’re right, there isn’t much known about him officially, not when you consider that he has to be one of the biggest players round here. Freddie Rickman has got his fingers in a lot of pies. Some we know about and there’s probably some we don’t. I remember when he was involved in the drug supply for the area — that was a while ago now.

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