The Desire Line: A Gripping Irish Psychological Thriller by Jane Cassidy

Author:Jane Cassidy [Cassidy, Jane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: epub, Ebook, Unputdownable, Exciting. Keeps ypu guessing, Louise Philips, Mystery, irish Crime, Kindle Unlimed
ISBN: 9781781996935
Publisher: Poolbeg Press
Published: 2023-07-31T23:00:00+00:00

Jer left Nora dozing and drove into town, with a stop-off to buy himself a pay-as-you-go mobile. He got to the office in time to meet Stella coming down the stairs, carrying two large carrier-bags. She avoided making eye-contact with him.

“Stella?”

She stopped halfway down and swayed slightly, shifting one of the bags to her right hand, so she could grasp the handrail.

“Thanks for coming up with the Sky-High series. That was a brainwave.”

“Why didn’t you ask for my help, Jer?”

He looked up at her from a couple of steps below. “I should’ve. I just thought you wouldn’t want to help with anything that concerns Nora.”

“Whatever affects you affects Indigo, so of course I’ll help.”

He nodded. “That’s good to know. I’d begun to think your heart wasn’t in it anymore.” He glanced at the carrier-bags.

“I’ve invested a lot of years of my life in this company.”

He was hurt by the bitterness of her tone. “I know that.”

At that moment, the timed light clicked off, leaving them both illumined by the crepuscular glimmer from the grimy stairwell window. She seemed to be waiting for him to say something further, but he moved up the stairs past her.

Amy was alone in the office, chatting on her phone when he walked in. He mimed drinking from a cup and got an enthusiastic nod. She’d wound up her conversation by the time he joined her with two mugs of coffee.

“Thanks for getting this together so quickly – you’re a star!” He sat down beside her.

“It’s Stella you need to thank. She pulled in a favour from one of her old BBC pals to get this couriered over. Didn’t you see her on the stairs?”

“I did, yes.” He took a sip of coffee. “Did she get the dress?”

Amy gave a ghost of a nod and screwed up her face in sympathy. “It’s a beautiful, pale-pink suit. Really pricey one from House of Frazer.”

“Okay, too much information.”

“Sorry.”

They sat in an uncomfortable silence for a few moments.

“So, the police have your phone. That’s crap!”

“I bought a cheapy to tide me over. Would you mind putting in the numbers of the team. You’d do it much quicker than me.”

“Sure.”

“Is the footage of Islandmagee just the broadcast programme?”

“No, it’s the off-cuts and other stuff as well.”

“All the library footage they have of Islandmagee? Well done, Stella,” he said, chastened.

While Amy fiddled with his phone, he opened the video file. In the first sequence, the helicopter swooped low over Carrickfergus Castle and followed the coast northwards. He recognised the terrace of colourful houses along the seafront at Whitehead and the lighthouse gleaming white in the sunshine. They were following the coast of Islandmagee now. The cliffs of the Gobbins stood sentinel in an emerald sea, their caves and indentations like the cloven hooves of an ancient beast. He spotted the pig-shaped Isle of Muck, Portmuck Harbour and the horseshoe of golden sand at Brown’s Bay. Then, abruptly, the peninsula was behind them, and the camera was over the sea, zooming in on the Larne-Stranraer ferry far below.

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