Medusa: Miranda is back (Miranda Trilogy Book 3) by Stewart Giles

Author:Stewart Giles [Giles , Stewart]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: STILL Books
Published: 2020-10-30T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY EIGHT

Detective Henry Swales admired the empty plate in front of him. Just minutes earlier it had been heavy with bacon, eggs and hash browns but now all that was left was some grease and runny egg yolk. He patted his stomach and smiled. His wife would have had a heart attack if she’d seen how much he’d just put away, but Swales had been starving. He’d enjoyed the best night’s sleep in a very long time. He didn’t know if it had been because of the beer – he’d only managed three cans, or if it was because his mind had refused to let him dwell on thoughts of Miranda. Whatever it was that had resulted in his blissful slumber, he felt revitalized because of it and he was ready to take a fresh look at things.

He paid the bill and left the diner. It hadn’t yet turned seven in the morning, but the sun was already beating down on the roof of his hired car. He walked towards the car, passing newsstands on the way. Miranda Newbeck was everywhere now, glaring from the front pages of every newspaper. Swales caught some of the headlines as he walked.

Death Row Monster still at large.

Will she kill again?

Where is the Death Row Monster now?

“Miles away,” Swales mumbled to himself as he pressed the key fob.

He got in the car and closed the door.

“Miles away,” he repeated and something occurred to him.

It was a memory that seemed rather old now. A memory of DI Patricia Keene’s crumpled body in the back of Miranda’s car. They’d found her less than an hour after she was murdered and still Miranda had managed to escape. DI Keene’s body was not yet cold when all points of exit from the country had been notified of Miranda’s possible intention and everybody involved had been certain she would be apprehended soon.

But she wasn’t and Swales remembered why.

Miranda had anticipated this reaction and had been one step ahead. She’d hidden in a truck, crossed the English Channel into France and had stepped off the plane in New York before anyone even realised what had happened.

Swales took out the pre-paid phone he’d bought and dialled one of only two numbers in his contacts list. It rang for quite a while before it was answered.

“What the hell time is this?” Sheriff Doug Brown didn’t sound impressed.

“Around seven,” Swales said. “Were you asleep?”

“I got a day off. What the hell do you want at this time, Henry?”

“Rough night?”

“Rougher than usual. What is it?”

“I think Miranda Newbeck has already left the country,” Swales said.

“Impossible. There’s a million pairs of eyes out looking for her. There’s no way she could have got out.”

“She’s managed it before. She only had an hour head start and she did it before.”

“My head is throbbing in time with my heartbeat, Henry. What is it you want?”

“Ideas,” Swales said. “You know this country better than me. Where do I start looking?”

“I’m sure I’m still drunk, detective, but it still don’t mean I’m not thinking right.

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