The Girl in the River by Kate Rhodes

Author:Kate Rhodes
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-07-23T16:00:00+00:00

was obvious: a cabinet minister’s daughter, a priest and a copper all thrown faceless into the river by a savage killer. But experience had made me wary of press involvement. It always slowed investigations down and raised levels of panic. The hacks’ morose expressions revealed that there had been no new information, so I put my head down and raced for the entrance.

The incident room was rammed by the time I arrived. Burns gave a quick nod of greeting and I noticed that he looked calmer, as though Amala’s death had finally sunk in, or maybe he was just relieved that no more attacks had been reported. His grave expression made the room fall silent when he rose to his feet.

‘This is turning into the biggest manhunt London’s seen for years. The killer’s MO seems simple. He damages people’s faces then drops their bodies into the Thames. Except it’s not that easy. The uniting factor between all the victims seems to be the Shelley family. First Jude was attacked, then their priest, then the children’s former nanny. But we still don’t know why they’re being targeted. The other thing we need to keep in mind is how dangerous the killer is. This guy gets a kick out of mutilating his victim’s faces then letting them drown.’ Burns swung round to face me. ‘Alice, can you tell us any more about his profile?’

The tension in the room hit me with full force when I rose to my feet. ‘Something’s sparked this man’s violence again, a year after he attacked Jude Shelley. It could be a personal tragedy, or a recurrence of mental illness, or it could have been triggered by the reopening of the Jude Shelley case. He’s selecting victims from her family or closely connected to them. It’s almost certain to be someone they all know. Jude recognised his voice, but can’t name him, which confirms that he’s from inside their world. The fact that the last two attacks

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