Inspector Lynley 11 by A Traitor To Memory

Author:A Traitor To Memory [Memory, A Traitor To]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-11-24T19:09:42+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Jill Foster could see that Richard wasn’t pleased at having to entertain another visit from the police. He was even less pleased to learn that the detective had just come from seeing Gideon. He took in this information politely enough as he motioned DI Lynley to a chair, but the manner in which his mouth tightened as the detective imparted his facts told Jill that he wasn’t happy.

DI Lynley was watching Richard closely as if gauging his most minute reaction. This gave Jill a sense of disquiet. She knew about the police from years of having read newspaper accounts of famously botched cases and even more famous miscarriages of justice, so she was fairly well versed in the extremes they would go to in order to pin a crime on a suspect. When it came to murder, the police were more interested in building a strong case against someone against anyone than they were in getting to the bottom of what happened because building a case against someone meant putting an investigation to rest, which meant getting home to their wives and their families at a reasonable hour for once. That desire underlay every move they made in a murder inquiry, and anyone being questioned by them would do well to be wise to that fact.

The police are not our friends, Richard, she told her fiance silently. Don’t say a word that they can twist round and use against you later.

And surely that’s what the detective was doing. He fastened his dark eyes brown they were, not blue as one would have expected in a blond -on Richard and waited patiently for a reply to his statement, a neat notebook open in his large, handsome hand. “When we met yesterday, you didn’t mention you’d been advocating a meeting between Gideon and his mother, Mr. Davies. I’m wondering why.”

Richard sat on a straight-backed chair that he’d swung round from the table on which he and Jill took their meals. He’d made no offer of tea this time. That suggested welcome, which the detective definitely was not. Richard had said upon his arrival and prior to DI Lynley’s mentioning the call he’d made on Gideon, “I do want to be helpful, Inspector, but I must ask you to be reasonable with your visits. Jill needs her rest and if we can reserve our interactions for daylight hours, I’d be very grateful.”

The detective’s lips had moved in what the naive might have concluded was a smile. But his gaze took in Richard in such a way as to suggest he wasn’t the sort of man used to being told what was expected of him, and he didn’t apologise for his appearance in South Kensington or make routine noises about not taking up too much of their time.

“Mr. Davies?” Lynley repeated.

“I didn’t mention that I was attempting to arrange a meeting between Gideon and his mother because you didn’t ask me,” Richard said. He looked to where Jill was sitting at one end

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