Murder Sky High: detectives crack the mystery of a deadly cargo by Linda Hagan

Author:Linda Hagan [Hagan, Linda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: THE BOOK FOLKS bestselling crime fiction publisher
Published: 2021-08-22T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 26

‘Gawn.’

She had expected Jansen would cry off their trip to de Bek’s old home, perhaps send someone else with her, so she was surprised to hear his voice. She was sitting over coffee in her hotel room having decided on room service rather than a visit to the hotel restaurant.

‘Hendrik, I–’ Before she could finish her sentence, he interrupted her.

‘Meyer’s dead. Kiki found him this morning when she arrived to open the shop.’

‘Meyer’s dead?’ She was aware that she had just repeated what he had told her and that she sounded like a character in a bad B-movie but she couldn’t help it. She was stunned. ‘Dead or murdered?’ she asked, aware too that there was a slight tremor in her voice.

‘It’s not clear yet how he died. There were no obvious signs of violence but it’s strange timing. We question him one day and he dies that night, a week after one of his employees dies too.’

‘Someone’s cleaning up their mess; getting rid of any loose ends, like I said yesterday.’

‘Yes, I think so. It’s just too coincidental. My meeting has just finished here. I’ll send a car to bring you to Elandsgracht. See you shortly.’

He rang off. He had not mentioned last night. She wouldn’t be bringing it up either.

* * *

He looked exactly as he had the first time she had met him. Urbane and sophisticated, his suit well-fitting and his tie perfectly knotted. A senior officer on the rise.

‘Good morning, Gawn.’ Was there a slight edge to his voice or was she imagining it?

‘Hendrik.’ She smiled, not too much, just enough to be friendly in a business sort of way. God, this was going to be awkward. She just knew it.

‘Coffee?’

He reached a cup towards her as she seated herself in the same armchair as yesterday. Only yesterday. Hard to believe after all that had happened since then. She couldn’t help but think about their coffee experience the previous evening. She wondered how often he had sat in this office with the effects of marijuana still in his system. Did he feel guilty as she had done when she was popping her little pills to help her get through? She had Seb to thank for helping her to get over them. But she didn’t want to think about him. Not now. And he still hadn’t got in touch; hadn’t responded to her text.

‘They’ll still at the scene at Meyer’s but there didn’t seem to be a break-in or anything stolen, as far as Kiki could tell them, anyway. One of the filing cabinets was open but he may just have been looking through something when he died.’

Astrid, Rudy and now Meyer, all dead and at least two of them murdered.

‘Do you think it has anything to do with your case?’

‘Probably. Maybe. I don’t know.’

‘Let me ask you then, Gawn, de Bek may not have been killed but whoever is involved in all this had arranged for your Australian, Smith or Clinton or whatever his name

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