Lovers and Newcomers by Thomas Rosie

Author:Thomas, Rosie [Thomas, Rosie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harper Collins, Inc.
Published: 2010-03-04T00:00:00+00:00

Kieran pulled back his dreadlocks and wound them in a thin scarf. He straightened his fleece and did up the zip, then knocked on Mr Knight’s door. Mr Knight opened it immediately, frowned at Kieran’s site boots, and curtly indicated that he should take them off before following him into the kitchen. Mrs Knight was there and she smiled at him before pouring a welcome cup of hot coffee, and sliding over a plate of biscuits so it lay within easy reach.

The boss had told him that he was to call on Mr Knight this morning and formally notify him that AAS’s investigations at the Mead dig would be complete in two more days. Nothing further of any archaeological significance had been discovered in the immediate environs of the grave, and it seemed likely therefore that it had been a high-status burial site deliberately maintained apart from any village settlement. In due course Mr Knight and the county archaeologist would be receiving copies of the AAS report on the excavation and the finds, with an evaluation of the probable importance of the now unfortunately destroyed grave site and its artefacts set in the context of the other Iron-Age civilizations of the area.

Then, after the archaeology team had finally withdrawn from the site and the county authorities had approved in writing the resumption of works, Mr Knight would be free to get his contractors back at any time.

Chris Carr had been adamant that he wouldn’t come to this meeting himself. This puzzled Kieran, because usually Dr Carr insisted on speaking to clients and landowners personally. However, quite a number of things about this dig were puzzling and some of them were positively uncomfortable. He wasn’t even going to speculate any further about Damon and Jessie and what they might have spilled out between them to the local lowlife, for example. The fight at the Fifth party had been bad, and in the end all he had got for suggesting that Jessie and his brother might have been implicated in the theft and violation was a couple of punches in the head. Kieran was still staying at his mother’s house for safety’s sake.

What was even worse, the fight had been broken up by none other than Mr Knight. Rather bravely, too, Kieran had to acknowledge. Damon’s mate Donny Spragg probably hadn’t been carrying a blade to the Meddlett Fifth bonfire and hog-roast, but then again it wasn’t impossible, and the lawyer couldn’t really have known either way. He’d just marched over, stood up to two much younger blokes and sent them packing. Kieran reflected that he should have been grateful for this, but the scene hadn’t shown him in a very good light, not with Jessie looking on. Therefore he couldn’t warm to Amos Knight. He didn’t like the way he was asking questions now and making notes of Kieran’s answers, probably twisting his words in some lawyer-like fashion as he did so.

Most troubling of all, though, was the loss of the

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