THE ISLE OF WIGHT MURDERS a gripping crime thriller full of twists by PAULINE ROWSON

Author:PAULINE ROWSON [ROWSON, PAULINE]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Joffe Books crime thriller, mystery and suspense
Published: 2022-03-29T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

Saturday

Throughout the night Horton had racked his brains trying to think who this girl might be that Thea had asked about. Arina Sutton? Arina would have been in her early twenties in 1990. Was it possible she was connected with the Carlsson deaths? Had Owen cultivated her friendship because she had known something about it?

With sleep scratching his eyeballs, and no answers to his questions, he arrived at the incident suite to find Cantelli, Trueman and Somerfield already there. Trueman explained that Marsden was leading a small team of officers questioning the residents overlooking the Duver for sightings of the person who had broken into Horton’s yacht.

He added, ‘Birch’s officers have finished checking with the owners of the handful of houses that are on the Duver and they all claim they haven’t let their apartments over the last two to three weeks so not even a cleaner has been in them, and they haven’t been there themselves since August. The café’s been boarded up since the end of October and there’s no link between the assistant in the marina shop and the harbour master with Carlsson. Neither claim to have heard or seen anything suspicious.’

Horton wasn’t surprised. He hadn’t thought they’d find anything from that line of questioning anyway. ‘Where’s Superintendent Uckfield?’ he asked, eyeing the big man’s empty office beyond the incident suite. There was also no sign of Birch, thankfully.

‘Said he’d be in later,’ yawned Cantelli. ‘Didn’t say why.’

No, but Horton could guess. The only thing that would keep Uckfield from his desk, apart from lunch with the hierarchy, was sex — and that meant Uckfield had made a conquest of the luscious Laura Rosewood.

‘Any news from Luxembourg?’ he asked, feeling bad tempered and frustrated. He had woken knowing that this was going to be one of those slow, wasted days in the middle of an investigation.

Trueman shook his head. ‘But the file on the Carlssons’ break-in should be with me later today.’ The phone rang. Cantelli took the call.

Horton studied the crime board silently urging it to reveal some tiny scrap of information that could help with the case. Thea’s employers had e-mailed a photograph of her taken from her personnel file. The serious pale blue eyes and thin face looked blankly at him. Where are you? Are you alive or dead? God, he wished he knew. He couldn’t help thinking about what Bohman had told him about her illness triggered by the tragic events of her childhood. It didn’t bode well for her current state of mind.

The thoughts jeered at him. There must be something that could connect and tie up all the loose ends of this case, but whatever it was remained tantalizingly out of his reach.

‘That was the front desk,’ Cantelli said, replacing the receiver. Horton spun round. ‘They took a call early this morning from a woman who says she saw Thea Carlsson, but before you get your hopes up, Andy, this was before her brother was killed. She’s a librarian at Cowes and she says Thea was in there on the Thursday before her brother’s disappearance.

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