Taylor, M [Shetland Sailing Mysteries 09] The Shetland Sea Murders by Marsali Taylor

Author:Marsali Taylor
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Hachette Headline Accent
Published: 2021-06-18T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Tuesday 22nd October

Tide times Aith

HW 03.47 (1.8m); LW 10.02 (1.2m);

HW 16.11 (1.8m); LW 23.01 (0.9m)

Moonrise 22.37, sunrise 08.00; sunset 17.36, moonset 16.37.

Waning crescent moon

Uncle had invited us for breakfast, promising a glowing Rayburn and cinnamon rolls. We dressed and washed our faces on deck, then hauled the anchor up, Jen sloshing the kelp off with a bucket of water as I raised it. We headed in gently and moored at the pier again. I locked up Khalida and called the cats, and we strolled up the hill to Uncle’s cottage. He had watched us coming in, and the cinnamon rolls were steaming gently on a plate in the middle of the table, the best shillingboller like you’d find in Bergen. There was dark rye bread, and slices of ham and cheese, and a coffeepot. I took off my outer jumper, slid in behind the table and tucked in.

‘Now,’ Uncle said, when the story of the night’s alarm had been told, the serving plates had been half-cleared, and neither Jen nor I could eat another scrap, ‘now we will sit in the snug, and plan our campaign of action. You cannot live anchored in the middle of the voe for the rest of your lives. No, Jen, leave these. I will clear later.’

‘We need to prove he murdered Kenny,’ Jen said. ‘Then the police will arrest him and take him away.’

‘I think there might be something you could do about getting him out of Tammie’s house,’ I said. ‘You can use any name you like in Scotland so long as you’re not trying to gain an advantage by it. Well, that’s what Roberts was doing – using another name to get the house. If he’d used his own name you or Geordie or your mother would have recognised it the moment Tammie told you about him. Ergo, he was trying to take advantage of something he wouldn’t have got with his own name. Didn’t you say Geordie was going to get Isla to check that out?’

‘You should write an account of his visit to you last night,’ Uncle said. ‘And yesterday afternoon too. Tammie said he could be asked to leave if his behaviour was unacceptable.’

I thought about that. ‘He didn’t say or do anything unacceptable yesterday. The objectionable thing was him being there at all. And out in the voe there was no sign of him trying to cut us loose or anything like that. He knew Jen was on board. He wouldn’t want to harm her.’ I paused to yawn. The long night was catching up with me. ‘I think he just wanted to give us a fright, under the guise of checking we were okay.’

‘He killed Kenny,’ Jen repeated. ‘Kenny tackled him, told him to go, and he killed him.’

‘I haven’t talked to DS Peterson about Saturday night yet,’ I said. ‘About Kenny being out on the hill. Does she know about the meeting here?’

‘I have not yet told her,’ Uncle said. ‘Maybe Tammie has told her, or Geordie.

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