The Rules of Murder by The Rules of Murder (retail) (epub)

Author:The Rules of Murder (retail) (epub)
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781788637763
Publisher: Canelo
Published: 2019-11-27T00:00:00+00:00

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As she stepped into the sunshine and took a welcome breath of fresh but stiflingly hot air, she felt more frustrated than anything else. Although cause of death in both murders was relatively clear-cut, and the post mortems had thrown up no unexpected surprises, Dani remained hugely confused as to the circumstances of Oscar Redfearne’s and Mary Deville’s deaths. Not because it appeared anything other than that both people had been killed by the same person, but because the biggest question remained: Why? What linked the two victims? The connection between Curtis and Mary Deville was apparently clear-cut. And Mary Deville, apparently, knew the Redfearnes in some manner or other. But what was the connection between Curtis and Oscar Redfearne?

As she reached her car she pulled out her phone. She sat down into her seat – the air in the car was barely breathable and she fired up the engine and turned the air-con to full blast.

She had a missed call and text message from Jason, plus a missed call and voicemail from Easton. She called Jason back first. When he answered he sounded surprised that she’d called back so quickly – it certainly wasn’t to form. What did that say about her current state of mind that she was seeking comfort in him sooner than she’d call her colleague back to update him on the case? There was no doubt she was feeling far more rattled these last couple of days without Jason than she normally did, particularly after the day she’d had – Larissa, Ben, and then the visit to the morgue. She really needed a pick-me-up.

The brief chat didn’t really help much, but perhaps that was more due to Dani than Jason.

As soon as the conversation was over, she called Easton back.

‘All done in the morgue?’ Easton said.

‘Thankfully,’ Dani replied. With the car still far from cool, she had sweat droplets on her forehead and in the small of her back. With the images of corpses still on her mind, a flash of nausea washed over her.

‘Anything to report?’ Easton asked.

Dani thought about that one for a moment, but really she couldn’t think of much that she felt she hadn’t already known, only adding to her sense of frustration. ‘Not really. You?’

‘Yes actually,’ Easton said, and Dani was about to get her hopes up before he let out a long sigh. ‘I’ve started going through Curtis’s trial documentation. First up, this is going to take a bloody age. It was anything but straightforward. And if you’re talking about us considering everyone involved in this trial as a potential victim, from witnesses to jury members to legal teams… there’s no way we can find the resource to offer them all protection.’

Dani and Easton had posed that question, and the problem, to McNair on the phone earlier, on their way back from Long Lartin. The DCI had at that point reconfirmed her belief that there was insufficient cause to provide personal protection for anyone at this stage,

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