Perfect Girls by James Alison

Author:James, Alison [James, Alison]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Crime, thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Adult
ISBN: 9781786814258
Goodreads: 41385607
Publisher: Bookouture
Published: 2018-09-17T07:00:00+00:00

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They left the confines of the airport and headed towards the CBD. Rob drove while Rachel stared out of the window, enchanted by the spring blossoms beneath a forget-me-not blue sky: magnolia, dogwood, cherry and a reddish-purple tree she’d never seen, that he told her was called redbud.

‘They thought long and hard about the name of that one,’ she laughed.

The Fairfield Theater was a brick cube of a building standing alone in a parking lot the size of a football pitch. The police had done their work and left, and the place appeared deserted.

‘This is where they found them.’ Rachel pointed to the rear left-hand corner of the building. Rob was scanning for cameras. There were none at the rear of the building where the packing crate was placed, but there was one at the front, facing the parking lot. He tried the front door, which opened.

‘Let’s see if we can find someone; if the door’s open there must be someone around.’

The foyer was carpeted in brick dust, and there was plastic sheeting everywhere, loose wiring hanging from the ceiling.

‘Hello!’ Rob called. Silence. They looked into the auditorium, which was completely empty, all the seats removed. Eventually, after fighting their way through cabling and piles of loose flooring, they made their way to a back office where a solitary security guard was swilling Mountain Dew with his feet up on the desk.

‘Already gave a copy to the police,’ he grumbled when Rob showed his badge and asked to see footage from when the bodies were dumped.

‘You’ll have the original on here though?’ Rachel said, pointing to the hard drive. ‘We only want a very quick look.’

The security guard found the right digital file and disappeared for a cigarette break. The grainy images showed the front of a pickup truck. It was only just in shot, with not much more than the bumper visible. Then after a few seconds, the back view of Clayton Hill appeared, carrying the large box, swaying slightly under the weight. Behind him was a smaller, slighter figure in jeans and T-shirt, hair covered by a baseball cap.

‘She’s got something in her hand – look!’ said Rachel, pointing.

Rob rewound the tape and they watched again. It was a tubular metal object, like a wrench or a tyre iron. Then both figures disappeared from shot, heading past the camera towards the left side of the building. Less than a minute later, the nose of the truck could be seen reversing out of shot. There was nothing more.

Rob sat back in the security guard’s chair. ‘Wow. She makes him carry his own girlfriend’s corpse. That’s so fucked-up.’

‘Do you think he knew?’ Rachel mused. ‘Could it even have been him who strangled Melissa, at Miss XX’s bidding?’

‘No,’ Rob shook his head. ‘That doesn’t fit. I’m pretty sure she killed them both. From what we know so far, using an accomplice isn’t in her wheelhouse. She’s a lone operator.’

‘So…’ Rachel breathed out slowly, ‘in that case he had no idea what was in the box.

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