The Snow Day Murders (Edward Crisp Mysteries Book 2) by Peter Boon

Author:Peter Boon [Boon, Peter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Meadowcroft Publishing
Published: 2021-01-01T16:00:00+00:00

17

‘I don’t like this Edward, mate. I don’t like this one bit. Two murders now and we still can’t get through.’

If even DI Appleby was starting to panic, I couldn’t begin to process how I felt. Our snow day in Chalk Gap, which everyone had expected to be a magical winter wonderland, had turned into a twisted, ice-tinted horror show: with us all trapped in the village with the killer, who had now claimed two victims.

After spending the last few hours looking into Frances Flowers’ murder and making headway with more than half of the main suspects / witnesses (even if the headway being that all four people I’d spoken to had alibis for the timeframe of Frances’ death), I felt like we were back to square one. As I stood looking on while on video call to Appleby, PC Wood and Doctor Albright were once again liaising remotely with Appleby’s colleagues to confirm the death.

The victim was, perhaps unsurprisingly in hindsight, Cherry McDonald. When I’d fallen to the bottom of the cliff path, I saw something ominous sticking out of the snow near where I’d landed. It was her hand. I’d later wondered if she wasn’t quite dead when left under the snow and had managed to push her hand through, or if the killer had done it so she’d be eventually discovered by anyone that managed to stumble onto (quite literally in my case) that secluded corner under the cliff.

I’d moved just enough snow out of the way to identify who the person was by her face (though I didn’t know Cherry to speak to, I knew her by sight) but otherwise left everything exactly as it was so as not to disturb the body. What we didn’t know yet was when she was murdered or how long she’d been there; I was hoping the current remote work on the crime scene might shed some light, but again this was difficult without the proper professionals being able to access it.

However, one thing I did notice when I was trying to identify who it was: glowing red, tell-tale marks on her neck. It appeared that she’d been strangled.

This new murder certainly raised lots of new questions, despite all the questions about the original murder remaining unanswered. I say ‘new murder’: there was every possibility that Cherry was killed first, we just didn’t know. And this was something Appleby was becoming increasingly frustrated with.

‘What is going on, mate? One woman battered to death with a shovel. Another strangled to death and hidden in the snow. Their husbands in a big public confrontation this morning, one accusing the other of sleeping with his wife. Now both wives are dead. Not to mention one of these men is the local Vicar. Are the two murders connected? Which happened first? Were they even committed by the same person?’ He stopped and let out a deep sigh. I looked at the screen to see him rub his hand over his face in anger. ‘We

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