Shadows on the River by Linda Hall

Shadows on the River by Linda Hall

Author:Linda Hall
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Steeple Hill
Published: 2009-02-15T00:00:00+00:00


The bedside telephone woke me.

“Hello?” The little locket fell onto the floor beside me. It clattered to the floor and I clamored for it at the same time as I reached for the phone. Light was filtering through my curtains. It was morning. Maddy? She was at Miranda’s. Was she okay?

“Ally?” It was Mark.

I sat up suddenly, cleared my throat. “Hi,” I stammered.

“I hope I didn’t wake you.”

I coughed, choked on my cough, said, “Not at all.”

“I was wondering if you and Maddy would like to come to church with me this morning.”

“Maddy’s at a friend’s house.”

“How about you? Would you go with me?”

I put my hand to my forehead. “Um. No. I should be here when Maddy gets home.”

“How about going with me to Sydney for a couple of days then?”

“What?” I put a hand to my face. I felt flushed. Had I heard him right?

“…I was thinking about what you told me yesterday. All of what you told me yesterday. I called you last night. Did you get the message?” He sounded out of breath. “I think the police should reopen the case of your friend Tracy. I told you about my cousin who’s on the police force in Sydney? I have an idea I want to run by you.”

“Um.” I couldn’t think straight. I held the locket in my hand, noticing how cheap it was, how tarnished and how flimsy. When we had purchased them, we thought we were buying expensive gold. I placed it on my bedside table.

He went on, “This is serious, Ally. I don’t think we should let this go. And now he’s doing it again. Carolyn wants to hire a P.I. I told her, let me look into it a bit for you, I’ve been on the phone with her and with my cousin going over those old police reports from the time your friend died.”

I gripped the phone.

“…that’s why I’m wondering if you’d like to go to Sydney with me for a couple of days. If we ever want to have a hope of bringing Larry down, this might be it.” He seemed breathless, and as he talked I was becoming more and more confused.

My thoughts were swimming. I picked up my diary from the floor. “But it was more than twenty-five years ago,” I stammered.

“There’s no statute of limitations on murder,” he said simply. “My cousin’s an RCMP officer in Sydney. They’re willing to reopen the case. Ally, I need to ask this, have you been back to the place where you grew up? The bridge and the church? The graveyard?”

“No, I haven’t.”

“Maybe it would be a good idea to go back to that graveyard. Take a second look. Go over it again with my cousin. I know what the lawyers argued, that you couldn’t have seen or heard what you did from the distance in the graveyard.”

“But I did.”

“Let’s go there and prove it.”

“Mark, I can’t go to Sydney with you. I have Maddy to think about.”

“I was thinking she could come.



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