Murderous Secrets by Janice Frost

Author:Janice Frost
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: JOFFE BOOKS
Published: 2019-11-13T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Ava woke to the sound of her mother singing in the shower. She had a good voice, but why did she have to use the shower just when Ava was ready to use it? Still . . . just another couple of days and her mother would be gone. Ava and Ollie could settle back into their usual routine. Rather than lie in bed waiting for her turn in the bathroom, she decided to go for a swim on her way to work. She could take a shower at the pool.

For years, Ava had been a bit of a fitness freak, but she’d lately begun to cut back on her unforgiving exercise regime. She still liked to run and swim but was less fanatical about the whole thing. She’d taken up yoga and dropped some of her gym sessions. And she’d never felt better.

After a brisk swim and a shower — even at the pool she’d had to wait as one of the showers was out of order — she arrived at work feeling energised. PJ greeted her with a smile, saying, “I’ve been to the gym this morning. Decided to get in shape and become more positive in my outlook.”

“That’s good news, Peej. I was starting to worry about you. It’s good to have the old cheerful PJ back.”

“I’d barely noticed she’d gone,” Tom said, gallantly.

“Where’s the boss?” Ava noticed that he wasn’t in his office.

“With the big boss,” Tom said, meaning George Lowe. “He wants the DI to do a press conference this morning. There’s been a lot of interest in the murders. It’s the Valentine’s Day Massacre and Beast of Northfields labels that are firing everyone’s imagination.”

It was the morning after the fire and Soren Hunter was still missing. Tom had coordinated a search for Hunter but it was as though he’d vanished into thin air. “Probably back to London, where he can just disappear,” Tom concluded. “Might be worth contacting that Pixie you spoke with at the hostel, Ava. She could give us a heads-up if he turns up on her patch.”

“I suspect her loyalty lies with Hunter, not us,” Ava said. But it was worth a try, even though she couldn’t see Hunter making the mistake of showing up in a place where he was known.

“How have you been getting on?” she asked PJ, who had been tasked with finding out more information on Toby Swallow and with trawling through the interviews conducted with the guests and charity committee members, as well as anyone else who had been at Northfields on the fatal night. Swallow, Ava already knew, had no record. Though he appeared to be squeaky clean, he remained a suspect.

Going through the data from the interviews was a dull but necessary task; it was often in the detail that the key to a big break in a case was found. PJ had approached the task without complaint.

The members of the committee had been questioned in some depth. Most of them had arrived at Northfields in the afternoon to make the final preparations for the dance.

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