Steal The Gold: A British Murder Mystery (Ellie Reckless Crime Thrillers Book 2) (Cop For Criminals Ellie Reckless) by Jack Gatland

Author:Jack Gatland [Gatland, Jack]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hooded Man Media
Published: 2022-11-12T16:00:00+00:00

14

CUSTOMS DUTIES

Tinker had driven down to Dover in her Defender, which wasn’t the most comfortable of cars. Ramsey had sat in the passenger seat, constantly complaining about the vehicle’s lack of suspension, while Casey had sat on a bench in the back, reading comics on his tablet and chuckling to himself. The entire journey had been two hours of abject misery, not helped by Ramsey’s constant yelps every time a pothole shuddered the Defender, and by default, his bandaged hand.

‘You know, I could drop you off,’ Tinker had said early on, but Ramsey had stoically refused, probably knee-deep into whatever martyrdom he was intending to use to get out of this.

Tinker had then felt bad about even considering that; Ramsey didn’t have to place himself in the position he’d been in, and the fact he was still there spoke volumes.

If he carried on like this, she might even end up liking him.

As they’d driven, Casey had hacked into HOLMES 2, the police network, from his tablet, while sitting on the back seat. Tinker hadn’t wanted to know how he managed it, and instead just left him to his own devices as, his comics now finished, he returned into the system and the information already gathered on Brian Watson’s murder.

‘Apparently it was late last night,’ he said, reading the notes. ‘Witnesses said he’d been spooked all day—’

‘Probably after meeting Tinkerbelle here,’ Ramsey muttered, and then paused, looking wide eyed at her. ‘Dear God, it probably was because of that, wasn’t it?’

‘Carry on,’ Tinker said to Casey as she gritted her teeth. ‘Find me something that shows this wasn’t my fault.’

‘He went out to a Dover club, was witnessed around ten pm when he drank a lot of tequila, left about two in the morning and was attacked in an alley nearby,’ Casey read. ‘Mugging gone wrong, they say. Wallet and phone taken, but not his watch.’

‘Is there a reason they’d take it?’

‘It’s worth more than the phone, by far,’ Casey looked up. ‘It’s a U-Boat Chimera. Italian company, worth about four grand.’

‘Well now we know what he was using the bribe money on,’ Tinker shook her head. ‘Idiot.’

‘Actually, it’s a good idea,’ Ramsey replied, scratching his moustache with his good hand. ‘He could buy a couple of watches with the money, claim he’s saved up for them, and then let them make him profit. Expensive watches rise in price faster than bank interest rates.’

‘Not if you keep wearing them,’ Tinker muttered, but she could understand where he was coming from. ‘So, they either didn’t know it was worth money—’

‘Or it was a killing faked to look like a mugging,’ Casey had said.

Tinker suddenly screeched the Defender to a halt, swerving onto the side, the force of the braking slamming Ramsey, and his hand onto the dashboard with a sudden explosion of curse words.

‘What the utter hell?’ he eventually hissed, rubbing his bandage.

‘He emailed me about the shipping note around ten pm,’ Tinker muttered, not really to anyone in the Defender, but more to herself.

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