MURDER AMONG FRIENDS a totally gripping crime thriller full of twists by JANICE FROST

Author:JANICE FROST [FROST, JANICE]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Joffe Books crime thriller and mystery
Published: 2020-11-04T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

A trawl of the usual databases had failed to find a suitable match for Ronan Cox. Which led Elias to state the obvious at the team briefing. “He must have given a false name to Ripley and his friends.”

A murmur of amusement rippled around the room, a “You don’t say?” and the predictable, “Nice work, Sherlock,” until Steph brought them to order.

“All right, that’s enough, you lot. Get back to work.”

They needed to interview Ronan Cox. An interview with Ryan Brown had yielded no new information. Ryan hadn’t known Mark, Adam or any of their crowd. He’d never heard of Ronan Cox, and he had a solid alibi for the time of both murders.

PC Fairbairn had been in touch with the restaurant Kylie and Ryan had visited on the night of Ryan’s attack. Frustratingly, they’d deleted their CCTV footage of that evening before the recommended thirty days.

Adam Eades had given the police a list of the pick-up group’s clients. The pair claimed only to have organised three bootcamps in all. There had been three or four clients per bootcamp. They had already interviewed Tristan Morley, but there were a number of others to track down. Steph was most interested in the ones who had been in the same group as Cox. She elected to interview these, accompanied by Elias. The rest she assigned to other members of the team.

The first man they interviewed was another student, Scott Brocklehurst, shortish, overweight, diffident. In a roomful of people, he would be the one no one remembered. He remembered Ronan Cox.

“He started to get agitated after he’d approached two women in a row and they basically ignored him. That was when he got sort of jittery, like he couldn’t keep still. Maybe he was on drugs or something. I thought afterwards that maybe he was just bursting with frustration and had to keep moving to contain it.” He added an unfortunate afterthought. “Couldn’t really blame him though. Those women were disrespectful.”

“How so?” Steph asked.

Brocklehurst shrugged. “They just thought they were too good to talk to us. I’d have thought they’d be all over Ronan, mind. He was the type women usually go for. You know, big, muscly, but I guess he did come across as a bit aggressive. Maybe they sensed that about him.”

“How do you know what their thoughts were? Maybe they were on an errand from work and didn’t have time to stop. Maybe they just wanted to get on with their daily lives without being harassed.” Steph wondered if it had ever occurred to Scott that a woman had a right to go about her everyday business without being pestered by predatory men.

“He only asked them for directions.”

Oh Please. “Do you know how many times men have stopped me in the street to ask for directions and then pressed me for my phone number?”

“That’s a compliment, isn’t it?” Scott said. He’d missed her point entirely.

Elias said, “What happened on his third attempt?”

“Well, he went up to this woman and politely asked if she could give him directions to the train station.

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