River of the Dead by Nadel Barbara

Author:Nadel, Barbara [Nadel, Barbara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery, Crime
Amazon: B00GW4RLFA
Goodreads: 19863620
Publisher: Headline
Published: 2008-12-27T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

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‘Tomorrow is Easter Sunday,’ Edibe Taner said to Süleyman as they walked towards the high yellow wall that surrounded the Kaya family home in Mardin. ‘So all leave is cancelled and I for one will be in church.’

‘Protecting the Christians?’

‘In part, yes,’ she replied. ‘There will always be people who wish to harm others on the basis of their beliefs. The innocent have to be protected. But I will also be there to see whether Kaya’s American woman does indeed turn up.’

‘Which church?’

‘Mar Behnam Suriani church is where everyone goes,’ she said. ‘Musa Saatçi’s relatives will be there.’

‘Minus Gabriel.’

She shrugged. ‘Who knows? It’s Easter. Gabriel is a very observant man. Maybe he will just turn up for the service. Who knows?’

The gate that led into the Kaya family compound was closed. Taner rapped on it hard and then stood silently next to Süleyman while they waited for someone inside to respond. Almost a minute passed before soft footsteps were heard approaching from inside. When the door opened they found themselves looking into the heavily kohl-rimmed eyes of Yusuf Kaya’s first wife, Zeynep.

‘What do you want?’ she said, addressing Edibe Taner. ‘I’ve nothing to say to you.’

‘Not even about Yusuf’s foreign woman down by Dara?’ Taner said as she pushed roughly past the woman and entered the courtyard. ‘I think that you do, Zeynep.’

Zeynep Kaya looked her cousin straight in the eye and said, ‘Foreign woman? I don’t know what you’re talking about!’

‘Don’t you?’ Taner glanced around the seemingly deserted courtyard and then pulled Zeynep Kaya into the open door to a stable. Süleyman, looking round to see who may or may not be coming to Zeynep’s assistance, followed them. Beyond themselves, not a thing appeared to stir.

‘Well, the second wife in Dara, an American woman, knows you!’ Taner said as she held Zeynep Kaya up to the wall in front of her. ‘And, Zeynep, let me tell you, some of your husband’s thugs were guarding her.’

‘I don’t know anything about any woman!’ Zeynep persisted. ‘It’s all lies!’

‘It isn’t, and you know it,’ Süleyman put in. He wasn’t happy to witness what was in effect one woman bullying another, but Zeynep Kaya needed to know that her continued lying was futile. She must surely be aware that her husband had a second wife. There was far too much evidence to support that contention.

‘Your husband was imprisoned in İstanbul for killing the prostitute he was living with,’ Taner said. ‘He has a daughter by Anastasia Akyuz. I don’t know how many other women he’s slept with over the years since he married you but I would imagine that it runs into double figures. Yusuf is a shit! He always was!’

‘He is my husband!’ Zeynep Kaya made as if to spit into Edibe Taner’s face, but then, with sudden terror in her eyes, she stopped.

‘Don’t you dare!’ the policewoman roared. ‘Don’t even think about it!’ Suddenly, and with a force that surprised even Süleyman, she slapped Zeynep Kaya across the face.

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