Tell No Tales by Eva Dolan

Author:Eva Dolan
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Crime, General, Mystery & Detective, Fiction
ISBN: 9781448163298
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2014-12-31T18:30:00+00:00

30

BACK IN THE office Zigic told Wahlia to run the name Heather through the system, check for recent soliciting arrests, hoping they would get lucky and she was using her real name. It wasn’t the kind women assumed for business purposes, not flashy or sexy enough.

Parr was still out canvassing the area around the earlier murders, no new developments from that direction. Grieves had gone off to the canteen.

When Zigic checked his mobile he found three messages from Nicola Gilraye, increasingly impatient, wanting something for the evening news bulletin. He called her back, heard pub noise in the seconds before she spoke, voices and laughter, a quiz machine beeping.

‘The Sundays are bombarding me with requests,’ she said. ‘The Times are running a profile on Shotton in their magazine. A very sympathetic one from what I can gather.’

‘His PR team are doing good work.’

‘Which is bad for us.’

‘It has nothing to do with us,’ Zigic said.

The sound of tonic fizzing into a glass at her end. ‘Please tell me you’ve identified the victim at least.’

‘I’ll send you over the details.’

Zigic ended the call and told Wahlia to give her the basics, nothing more, no matter how hard she pressed him.

Ferreira was pulling her jacket on, grabbing her bag with her free hand.

‘Where are you going?’

‘For Selby.’ She pocketed her tobacco, snagged her keys from the desk. ‘Are you coming?’

Zigic crossed his arms and she froze.

‘What?’

‘So you’ve thought this through,’ he said. ‘You’re confident you’ve got enough of a reason to drag him in here?’

‘He’s involved,’ she said. ‘You heard Poulter. Why else would Selby be asking questions if he didn’t have something to hide? He’s worried one of them’s implicated him.’

‘Which they haven’t.’

‘Poulter has.’

‘He’s told us nothing,’ Zigic said. ‘He wanted kicking loose so he gave us a name off the top of his head, hoping we’d be stupid enough to believe him.’

‘Selby’s involved in this.’ Her hand shot away towards the murder boards. ‘Poulter said he was with him in the Red Lion last night, that’s a very short walk through the centre of town to Cromwell Road.’ She went over to the board, stabbed a point on the map. ‘He’s less than half a mile away forty minutes before the attack.’

‘Did you see him on any of the footage?’ Zigic asked.

‘No. And that’s suspicious in itself. First sign of trouble he should have been wading in with the rest of the wankers. But he wasn’t. Don’t you find that strange?’

Zigic gave a non-committal murmur, knowing Selby’s absence from the scene was strange but not wanting to encourage her any further.

It would be easy to get sidetracked now. Selby was a decent fit but so was every other ENL foot soldier they’d pulled in, now that a second man was implicated in the murders. They wouldn’t know for sure until they had a DNA match but it looked highly likely that the mute in the cells had left his spit on Ali Manouf’s dead face. The evidence which had blacked out every name in their suspects list was suddenly meaningless and they were all back in the frame.

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