The Greenway by Jane Adams

Author:Jane Adams [Adams, Jane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Joffe Books psychological thrillers and suspense
Published: 2019-03-11T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Mike’s head was filled with the day’s fragmented images. The morning’s events had caught everyone unprepared and found Mike short of senior personnel. Finally, it had seemed best to make use of Tynan and it had been the ex-DI and a young WPC who accompanied the overwhelmed Cassidys and Sara to the hospital for medical checks. Bill had been left to co-ordinate primary activities on site and Mike himself had escorted the Malthams to Divisional at Norwich for interviewing.

It was at that point the day had ceased to be productive, had become instead one long frustrating grind of an anti-climax, consuming time and giving nothing back.

Mike stared hard at the phone receiver he still held in his hand, then, remembering what he was supposed to do with it, replaced it on the cradle and prepared himself for renewed assault on Cassie Maltham’s ‘memory loss’.

The truth was he didn’t know what to make of it, and Bill’s call to him from the hospital — where he had joined Tynan — had done nothing whatsoever to alleviate his confusion.

‘Well?’ Flint’s sharp enquiry jolted him back to the present.

‘The child claims to remember no more than Mrs Maltham does and she’s got no logical reason to lie to us.’

Flint was glaring at him. ‘And you can’t get the Maltham woman to break her story? She sticking to her Whammy the great magician act?’ He paused, slurped at cold coffee and made a disgusted sound as the skin on it attached to his upper lip. Mike stifled the desire to smirk, looked away instead and stared hard at the blotched plasterboard of the office wall.

‘And what about our so-called experts? Do they have any . . . insights?’

Croft shook his head. ‘Neither our medic nor the shrink we called in can find any evidence of irrationality or psychosis. We can’t charge her, sir, we’ve nothing to charge her with. We can’t have her sectioned either. The best they can come up with is maybe some neurological problem her own doctors didn’t detect, something that causes her to black out, to lose memory of certain times or places.’

‘Do they think she could commit murder during one of these so-called blackouts?’ Flint asked. He was clutching at straws and they both knew it. Even if Cassie Maltham had murdered the woman, there remained the problem of how she had hauled the body up to the top of Tan’s hill and got the child there in the few minutes that Croft and the others had been absent. Just how anyone could have done that was beyond Mike’s immediate comprehension, to say nothing of where they had hidden the body prior to this, never mind, the woman’s identity, why had she been so brutally beaten . . . Those questions were just for starters.

‘Her husband’s called their own solicitor. Called in the Psych that treated her as well, a Doctor Maria Lucas. She’s due here at any time.’

Flint made the same disgusted sound again. ‘So, and what

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