Nine Lives by Anita Waller

Author:Anita Waller [Waller, Anita]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloodhound Books - crime, thriller and mystery
Published: 2021-04-06T16:00:00+00:00

Erica sat at her desk and woke up her computer. She pulled up all witness reports, friends’ statements, anything she could find – there was a niggle in the back of her mind.

The piece of A4 paper looked too pristine, so she turned it around to landscape it and drew four lines top to bottom. Then she headed each column with the names Susie, Clare, Imogen, and Tanya. There had to be a link and she was going to find it, or find a suggestion of it.

She scrolled carefully through everything they had on Susie, but almost from the beginning saw slight differences. Susie was the practice model. Susanna Roebuck hadn’t remained in situ, she had been swept downriver by the torrent that was the Porter in its current state. The killer had become more careful in his, or her, positioning after that.

Susie had been picked up and that pick-up had an almost accidental feel to it, an opportunistic move on the part of the killer.

The other three shared a noticeable link once everything was written down on the paper. A gym.

Was it the same gym? Clare Vincent had tried to escape the horror of her girl-friend’s murder by going to the gym for a couple of hours, but according to Starlite Gym had never arrived. That information had been treated as a dead end in view of the fact that she had never arrived.

Imogen Newland had gone to the gym – the same one – for a girly night out, confirmed by Starlite, and Tanya Lacey had rung her family to say she was going to the gym to escape the Halloween visits. The same gym? Could the Starlite Gym be the link between the last three victims?

One other factor linking all four was that none of them had used a car, and in fact only Tanya had owned one, although hadn’t used it, on the night of her abduction.

Did the killer know this? Did this mean that Tanya Lacey was a second opportunistic abduction? He wouldn’t have been able to lure anyone into his car to escape the rain if they already had a car of their own.

Erica’s mind was buzzing. It felt to her that this was almost the first time she had been able to sit down and view the facts, make some sense of them. The murders had happened seemingly one after the other, and they had only started on investigating each individual one, then another happened. Now she could see the four as a whole, and knew she had seen something new to chase. Starlite Gym. She needed to know whether Tanya had been a member there.

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