Soul to Take by Clare Revell

Author:Clare Revell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pelican Book Group
Published: 2020-04-20T00:00:00+00:00

11

Isabel took a deep breath as DI Holmes’ car pulled up outside the house. She’d argued against calling him, but DS Painter had insisted.

The DI ran up the pathway. “Are you all right?”

“I’m fine, sir. It was just a couple of flash bangs, that’s all.”

He raised an eyebrow. “Really? Get in the car and wait for me there.”

“Sir…” she began to protest.

“Now, Isabel.” He vanished inside the house.

Isabel didn’t move. She heard voices from inside the house, before DI Holmes returned with Zander and Gramps. Neither of them looked happy either.

“Isabel, I told you to get in the car. We’re being watched. Or didn’t you know that?”

Zander nodded. “We knew. And the house is also bugged. I need to get Gramps over to Grace’s.”

“Yes,” Gramps said, using the script they’d rehearsed on sheets of paper that Isabel now had in her pocket. “I’m staying with Grace for a bit.”

“Uniform can do that. I need the both of you, plus DS Painter, back at the station, now.”

“Not until Gramps is safe,” Zander insisted.

DI Holmes groaned. He spun to face a uniformed officer. “Could you please drive Mr. McNally and his bags to his granddaughter’s so that DS Ellery will follow orders?”

“Yes, sir.”

“Thank you. Zander, give him the address. Isabel, get in the car. Don’t make me repeat myself again.”

Isabel slid into the front seat of DI Holmes’ car whilst Zander gave the uniformed officer Grace’s address. She just prayed they weren’t making a mistake.

Twenty minutes later, they were all shut in the DI‘s office with the door closed and blinds pulled down. He looked at them. “Talk to me.”

Zander glanced sideways at her. “You’d better do that. I haven’t been here.”

She resisted the urge to shoot him the look. Instead she picked at a fingernail as she explained about the phone being bugged, the house being watched, and the window being smashed.

“And the composite artist was there because?” DI Holmes prompted.

“Talking to Gramps, I realised he’d seen Lexi’s boyfriend. He was a cop or so she told me, and as several victims were also dating a cop, it wasn’t a huge leap to assume it’s the same bloke. Our killer. So as Gramps had seen him, and was potentially assaulted by him, we wanted a picture. Which we didn’t get a chance to get.”

“I’ll organise it once you’re both safe.”

“Sir…”

He glared at her. “I am not arguing this point. Both you and Zander are going into a safe house starting tonight. I’ll organise it myself. Now I want statements from the three of you, starting with Zander.”

Isabel stood and left the room, taking quick paces to her desk. Something niggled at her and she riffled through her in-tray. Nothing there in the mail she hadn’t already seen. Surely her copy of those DNA results should have come back now. The ones that either proved or disproved her relationship to CS Clydesdale. Yes, he said he’d seen them, but until she had physical proof in her hand, she wasn’t believing anything.

Perching on the chair, she grabbed the landline and dialled the police surgeon directly.

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