THE WRONG WOMAN an absolutely gripping crime mystery with a massive twist (Detectives Lennox & Wilde Thrillers Book 3) by HELEN H. DURRANT

Author:HELEN H. DURRANT [DURRANT, HELEN H.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Joffe Books crime thriller and mystery
Published: 2023-02-18T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Five

Debra lived in a flat above a newsagents off Ryebridge High Street. The entrance to it was off a small yard around the back. Jess banged on the locked door and looked up at the window above. The curtains were closed. It looked like no one was at home.

Jess took out her mobile and gave Debra a ring. “It’s me outside. I won’t keep you, I just need a quick word.”

It took Debra a good five minutes to get down the stairs. “I’m as stiff as a board. Every joint aches and so does my head, then there’s my arm. I can’t do anything properly with this plaster on and it’ll be weeks before it comes off. Doesn’t matter what I shove down my throat, nothing touches the pain.”

Jess had to admit that she looked a state. Her face was still badly bruised and her eyes were swollen. “I’m sorry,” she said. “You took quite a beating.”

“And it shouldn’t have happened. This is down to you lot, and then you have the cheek to come back. What is it now?”

Jess completely understood Debra’s anger. She was right, it was their fault, but that couldn’t stop them turning to her for help when they needed to.

“Blackwood has been taken ill,” Jess said. “He’s in hospital.”

The news didn’t appear to come as a surprise. Debra simply nodded and led the way up to her flat. “It’ll be his old trouble. He gets like this. It’ll pass, and then he’ll be back to his usual self.”

The flat was small, a combined living room and kitchen plus bedroom and bathroom. It was untidy, Debra’s stuff lay strewn all over the place.

“I can’t tidy up, the pain’s too bad,” she said, sitting amid the heap of rubbish on the sofa. “The best I can manage is to sit here and watch the box all day.”

“D’you rent this off Leyburn?” Jess asked.

“What choice do I have? There’s bugger all else out there. That man has the monopoly on crap accommodation in this town. He charges the earth for it too.”

Jess hadn’t the time to get into a protracted discussion about Leyburn’s evil ways, so she returned to the subject of Blackwood. “You said it would be Blackwood’s old trouble. What exactly did you mean?”

Debra shrugged. “I don’t really know what it is. Some sort of illness that puts him in hospital now and then. He’s never said anything about it and I’ve never asked. None of the other staff know owt either, cos we’ve discussed it. He has regular appointments at that private clinic, but I’ve no idea why. Treatment or check-ups of some sort, I suppose.”

“You sure you don’t know, Debra? You called it his ‘old trouble’, as if you did.”

“I just meant that whatever it is he’s had it for a while. He’s secretive about it. I reckon the only person who really knows what’s wrong with him is that wife of his — oh, and I reckon Lori knew. Despite what folk will tell you, they were close.

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