Lamb to the Slaughter by Aline Templeton

Author:Aline Templeton [Templeton, Aline]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Mystery
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2014-03-18T04:00:00+00:00

There were hours and hours of this stuff. Could there be anything more boring than checking out CCTV footage with poor definition, and trying to spot something significant when no one had given you any real idea of what ‘significant’ might be?

The woman constable stifled a yawn. Kirkluce High Street wasn’t exciting at the best of times and with the starting-point being after the shops shut on Saturday it wasn’t even busy. Spotting one of her pals heading for the pub had been one of the highlights.

When a possible car passed, you had to stop the tape and check for the registrations of a couple of cars she’d been told to look out for, that had claimed to be driving in convoy – and here was one of these big 4×4s, a Land Rover Discovery, coming along the High Street at definitely over the speed limit, heading in the direction of Fauldburn House. That looked promising. She checked the number. Yes, it was one they’d been specifically told to look out for. Result! She squinted at the figures at the bottom of the screen – 17.45 – and made a note.

They’d said to watch out for another car, a Saab, which had been claimed to be driving in convoy with the Discovery, but it certainly wasn’t there. A little later one did appear, coming straight along the High Street, but when she paused the tape the number was wrong. With a sigh, she went on.

It was after six o’clock when more people started appearing on the street. St Cerf’s Church Hall, where the meeting about the superstore had been held, was out of range, but people were gathering and heading in that direction. Personally, she thought having one would be a big improvement, but her mum and dad were dead against it, said people would lose their jobs and stuff.

There was another Saab. It was pulling out from the side road that led out of the town to the north, and this time the number was right. She jotted down the time, 18.12. Some convoy! The Discovery had arrived a good twenty-five minutes earlier.

She started the film again. The car turned off into the memorial square and she transferred to the camera that covered it. A woman got out of the car, locked up and walked back to the High Street, then off as if she might be heading for the meeting. You couldn’t see what she did after that, since it was only the central area of the town that was covered by cameras.

Having found the cars, there wasn’t much else of interest. People she didn’t recognise went to and fro along the High Street, then when groups began appearing, which suggested the superstore meeting had finished, she spotted the woman who’d got out of the Saab walking along with a man. They separated at the turning into the Market Square and he walked along, out of range. Switching to the other camera, she could see a few of

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