The Invisible Ones by Stef Penney

Author:Stef Penney
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Mystery, Contemporary, Historical, Adult
ISBN: 9781101554166
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2011-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

31.

Ray

Slowed by the storm, I don’t arrive at the site until close on midnight. All the trailer lights are blazing away; the rain falls diagonally, the wind whipping the trees into an ecstasy of self-flagellation. Before I’ve even pulled up, Sandra Smith runs toward my car—her blond hair turning flat and dark between her trailer door and mine. Her face is shiny white in my headlights, a mask of fear.

“Where is he? You haven’t found him?”

She’s staring into the backseat. She seems almost hysterical. I can’t see why.

“I don’t know where he is, but he’s got his van . . .”

“What?”

Then Kath and Jimmy are beside her. Jimmy leans in.

“Where’s Ivo?”

“That’s what I’m trying to find out. He hasn’t come back here?”

Kath pulls the younger woman away from my car. I strain my ears to hear her.

“It’s the detective. He’s not here about JJ. Come on . . .”

“Mr. Smith, what’s going on? Has something happened?”

Jimmy jerks his head to one side, meaning Get out.

“Her boy’s run off. She’s out of her mind with worry.”

“Oh, God, I’m sorry . . . Well, Ivo’s run off, too. He left Christo at the doctor’s. I called your sister-in-law—she’s with him now, in the hospital.”

“Who?”

“Lulu . . . Luella.”

“What’d you get her for?”

“Well . . . she’s the only family member I know with a phone.”

Jimmy stares at me, as though he can’t compute all this information, then starts to lead me to Tene’s trailer.

I wonder if there is a hole somewhere, in the fabric of England, and Jankos are falling through it, one by one.

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