The Mother by Jaime Raven

Author:Jaime Raven
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780008253479
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2017-07-31T04:00:00+00:00

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DCI Brennan

Brennan and his uniformed companions headed back across the Thames into South London.

Peckham was part of his patch, an area that had always been a breeding ground for people like Bobby Knight. Even at this early hour, the city was teeming with life; shift workers going about their business, homeless people looking for somewhere warm and safe to bed down, revellers walking home after a night out. And on the roads the ceaseless hum of traffic, mostly red buses and black cabs.

Brennan watched it all through the window of the patrol car, but he took nothing in. He was too busy thinking about how events were unravelling following the unlawful actions of Molly Mason’s desperate father.

DI Adam Boyd had put his job on the line by attacking Victor Rosetti in his own home. But, as a result, there was now a new suspect in the frame – except that Bobby Knight had apparently disappeared and his mother believed he’d been topped.

It was an extraordinary development and one that had Brennan wondering what the hell was going on.

According to DC Foster, a missing persons report was filed two weeks ago after Knight’s mother, Emily, said she hadn’t heard from her son for twenty-four hours. His probation officer confirmed that Knight had failed to turn up for meetings and had given no indication that he was going to drop out of sight.

Mrs Knight had also told officers that she was convinced her son had been murdered by his former boss, Tony Kemp. The reason she gave was that after his release Knight started stalking and making threats against Kemp’s daughter, Lauren, whom he’d been engaged to. But she moved on while he was inside. The mother had absolutely no evidence to back up her claim. Nevertheless detectives from Peckham had interviewed Kemp who’d acknowledged that Knight had been pestering his daughter, but had emphatically denied doing anything about it, except to warn him off.

What Brennan had to do was find out, and quickly, whether all this was in any way connected with little Molly’s abduction. If not, then there was every chance that he was about to waste more precious time.

But there were questions that needed to be answered.

Did Bobby Knight follow through on his threat to punish Sarah by snatching her child? And did he drop out of sight in order to do so? Or did something happen to him before he got the chance to abduct her? If so, then someone else must have been responsible.

Yet again Brennan reflected on how grotesque and bizarre this case was, and how it revealed the true depths of human depravity. Any man who could steal a child and then torment the mother with pictures and videos had to be the devil incarnate.

From what Brennan had learned about Bobby Knight the guy would probably fit the bill. He’d been a violent criminal before he was sent down and although he’d never been convicted of murder, it was strongly believed he’d committed several while working for Tony Kemp.

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