One Girl Missing: A totally addictive and gripping crime thriller (Detective Gina Harte Book 11) by Carla Kovach

Author:Carla Kovach [Kovach, Carla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781803141541
Publisher: Bookouture
Published: 2022-03-08T18:30:00+00:00

THIRTY-FIVE

‘DI Harte. Stick to the stepping plates and come over.’ Bernard gave a nod of his head and stepped into the entrance of the tent.

As Gina tried to keep to the plates, she nudged a light, almost knocking it over. A crime scene assistant caught it in time and repositioned it so that it shone brightly into the tent. The rustling of the hood seemed to distort Bernard’s voice slightly. She peered in to where Bernard was standing hunched so that his head didn’t touch the top of the canvas. Then, she allowed her gaze to settle on the body. The tiny woman was lying on her back, limbs bent a little and her face deathly pale. Thankfully, her eyes were closed. Gina swallowed as she saw the blood pooled around her head. If only they’d kept Taylor at the station. This wouldn’t have happened. ‘What do you know?’

‘We’ll obviously know more when we conduct a post-mortem but this is what we have so far. She was killed by a single knife wound to the neck. The carotid artery has been cut with the knife. She would have died quickly and, as you can see, she lost a lot of blood. Death could have happened within seconds.’

‘So whoever did this knew what they were doing?’ Gina shrugged. ‘Or maybe, it’s just common knowledge. Anyone can find out anything on the internet. What else?’

‘We have the weapon and I have briefly examined the wound. It looks to be a match and has blood on it too. Obviously, I can verify that when I get everything back to the lab.’

Gina looked away from the body. Taylor did not deserve this. She’d been foolish and she had betrayed Annabel’s trust, but no one deserved this. ‘Tell me about the knife you found?’

‘It was in the verge, a metre away from the body. I measured it to be thirty centimetres long in total. It’s a common make. They sell them everywhere as individual knives or as knife sets in a block. I know that as I have a set of them at home.’

‘Anything else?’

‘We have picked up a lot of debris. The usual. Cigarette butts. Rubbish. All this will be taken back to the lab. We do have a partial footprint, one of the only clear prints through the cut in the shrubs and we have a collection of prints just behind the tree line. It’s quite a damp evening so we are making moulds. The footprint in the cut through looks to be different to the one in the field. I did notice that the trees could be easily parted for someone to slip through.’

‘The witness I just spoke to said she heard someone behind the trees so that makes sense. We are looking for two people. The boy that she saw at the scene and another person. Do we have the shoe sizes?’

‘Yes. The shoeprint at the cut through is a UK size ten, the same as the field print. The footprint

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