The DI Hannah Robbins Series: Books 1 - 3 (Boxset) (Detective Hannah Robbins Crime Series) by Rebecca Bradley

Author:Rebecca Bradley [Bradley, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-04-01T22:00:00+00:00

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She filled the narrow hospital bed. Her bulky frame nearly spilled over the sides but the raised bars of the bed appeared to be acting as a restraint. Her skin was pallid. Her bleached hair yellow on the starched white pillow with a slight green tinge from the overhead bulb that was on in the dark ward.

There was coughing and shuffling as patients attempted to get comfortable and to sleep in uncomfortable and unknown beds. Nurses chattered at the night desk, their laughter reaching us. A normal working shift for them meant normal working engagement with their colleagues, despite the late hour.

Aaron nearly looked as distressed as Dawn Barry, the woman squeezed into the bed in front of us. His hands flicked up to his tie and he straightened it again, for the fourth time that I had seen. Not that it had moved in that period of time. I know it wasn’t great being woken up in the middle of the night, but he knew it was a part of the job.

‘Can you tell us what you were doing before you started feeling ill, Dawn?’ I asked as she pawed at her face, wiping away strands of hair that were sticking to it. Her blue eyes glued themselves to me.

‘I’d been out for a meal with me mates and when I got home I grabbed meself a tub of ice cream before I went to bed to cool me stomach down. We’d eaten a Mexican meal, you see. It wasn’t agreeing with me.’

‘Then what?’

‘That’s when it happened.’

‘I need you to tell me exactly what happened, Dawn. It’s the only way we can help you, if you tell us in your own words what happened.’

‘Well, I ate half the tub,’ she stopped and looked at us. ‘The Mexican food was really spicy. I don’t eat spicy food and I hadn’t eaten it before. I didn’t realise.’

‘It’s okay, carry on.’

‘So, I ate the ice cream and I started to feel worse – and not over-eaten worse, just worse. Really bad. Like I knew something was wrong, bad. Then it was like something out of The Exorcist, I was spewing out to the other end of the room and it was coming and coming and coming. And it was bloody as well. I felt like I was going to die. I was on me knees I was. My phone was in me pocket so I dialled 999 and left the line open cos I couldn’t actually speak. Then I don’t know what happened, I woke up here and they said they’d pumped me stomach and they’ve took a load of blood from me and then you turned up and here we are. And by the way, I feel like shit. What the hell happened and why are you here?’

‘Have you read any papers recently, Dawn?’

‘Can’t say I have. They’re full of crap aren’t they? You can’t believe half of what they tell you, there’s always an agenda, so no I haven’t.’ I

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