NO HARM DONE an absolutely gripping British crime thriller full of twists by JUDITH CUTLER

Author:JUDITH CUTLER [CUTLER, JUDITH]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Joffe Books crime thriller, mystery and suspense
Published: 2024-06-03T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

In the shower — she always needed one, no matter how clinical the surroundings and indeed the whole business of a post-mortem — Fran pondered anew the frailty of life. All her tears might have been shed yesterday — and she still couldn’t believe her lack of control — but she worried herself when she found herself speculating on what might have continued but for a well-placed knife. And then she told herself off, more comprehensively than if she’d been a rookie, throwing up over her first corpse. By Cynd’s account this was a rapist. And Jill at least believed her; maybe she herself did too. So what would Cynd’s story be now they had a body to check it against? Assuming they could find Cynd, of course.

She sailed into the briefing room to catch DCI Don Simpson in full rant: Cynd was still missing. Arms folded, she stood quietly by the door, letting him get on with it. Losing a self-confessed killer wasn’t good policing, was it? And the press would love it.

Where on earth was Jill? There was no sign of her. No text, missing a vital meeting — that wasn’t like Jill, since her illness the most efficient of officers. But she didn’t like to ask publicly. After all, she herself had been a tad late — had she missed something Don might have said?

Meanwhile, there was other information to absorb, mostly about trying to ID the dead man. Given that the evidence on the ground suggested he’d been carried to where he was found, Don had decided to check on what vehicles might have driven him to the point in the woodland where the little procession must have started. There were recent tyre tracks from a large van. CCTV from Canterbury Ring Road had shown up several white vans — cue derisory cheers from the team — heading in the right direction at the right time. Several? Several hundred, more like. And it had fallen to the lot of two of the team to chase up each number plate and check ownership details. That was still ongoing.

Poor sods. Fran had carried out similar eye-watering tasks in her time, though by the time CCTV had become so universal she’d been promoted beyond having to carry out that particular menial but vital role.

Others in the team were going through all the mugshots of the drivers and front passengers, using all the magic of digital enhancement, which managed to produce usable material from the grainiest of shots. The clever computer then matched the faces to faces on file — how on earth had they managed without? But although the technology delighted and amazed Fran in equal measure, so far it had come up with little that was useful. Early days yet, however.

Some more of the team were interviewing members of known gangs. Everything was going smoothly, it seemed, except that there was no DNA match on record for the young man, which would have helped everyone a very great deal.

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