THE FACELESS MAN an absolutely gripping crime mystery with a massive twist (Detectives Lennox & Wilde Thrillers Book 2) by HELEN H. DURRANT

Author:HELEN H. DURRANT [DURRANT, HELEN H.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Joffe Books crime thriller and mystery
Published: 2021-02-24T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-four

They walked back to the car in silence. “You don’t believe her, do you?” Jess said after a while.

“No. I’ll lay odds Lana knows exactly where that heroin is. Although why she’s hanging on to it is a mystery. She knows full well that Calvert won’t stop until he gets it back.”

“If she won’t talk, there’s not a lot we can do.”

“At least we know she’s not going anywhere. When we get back to the station, find out what she was up to online,” Harry said.

Meanwhile, Colin had phoned the laundry company and got an address for Roebuck, but when he went round he found the property had been empty for several months. Back in the office, he trawled through the electoral roll and other council records but found nothing.

“The address the hotel gave me drew a blank,” he told them when they got back. “I’ve done a search and found two people with the name Roebuck in Ryebridge,” he said. “One’s an elderly woman in a care home, she’s no family and neither had her husband. The other’s a woman who used to live on the Baxendale but has long since moved away. I’m stumped. I don’t know where else to look.”

“Living under the radar? Visiting, bunking up on a friend’s sofa?” Jess suggested. “He’s out there somewhere, has to be. Dean had him on his wall and Weeks knows about him too.”

“Keep at it, Col,” Harry said.

“How did the meeting at the city nick go?”

“Interesting,” Harry told him. “We’re now part of the Songbird operation. Heard of that?”

Colin nodded. “It’s been mentioned in the odd newsletter. Something to do with drug dealing I believe.”

“Indeed, and our victims are involved up to their necks.”

“Weeks is happy for us to carry on?” Colin asked.

“He appears to be, although that could change at any time. It depends what we find.” Harry knew that if they got close to proving that Calvert was behind the drug dealing, Weeks would step in and claim the glory.

Jess sat at her desk and rang Lana’s mobile provider. They promised to email details of what she’d been up to these last few days within the hour. She checked the messages on her desk — Dean’s phone data was through too. “Dean Greenwood didn’t ring many numbers,” she told the others. “I recognise his mother’s landline but there’s a mobile number he rang a lot.”

Colin had a list a names, addresses and phone numbers associated with the case, so he took Jess’s list and checked it against his. “Thea Connor,” he announced. “He rang her almost every day, sometimes three or four times.”

“We need another word with that young lady. She made out that her and Dean weren’t that close. Another one who can’t stop herself from lying.” Harry was getting fed up with this. None of the people they spoke to was telling the truth. If she and Dean were close, why hadn’t Thea just said so?

Colin was frustrated and it was getting late. “You get off, Col,” he told him.

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