The Tinton Arms Murder by Barbara Cook

Author:Barbara Cook
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781909271722
Publisher: M-Y Books Ltd.
Published: 2012-09-06T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

When Bev went through the front door it was to find silence. Never a good sign she thought. She went into the kitchen to see Jeannie laying the table for supper and little Alison sitting at the table colouring in a child’s colouring book. Bev raised her eyebrows as she looked at Alison. Jeannie continued to lay the table whilst talking to Bev.

‘Alison didn’t want to watch TV with the others so she is keeping me company.’ Jeannie had worked for Bev for long enough to have a secret unwritten code. Bev knew that there was more to this than meets the eye and probably something that Alison had got upset about.

‘Oh really, don’t you like TV Alison?’ The child didn’t stop with her careful movements ensuring no colour went over the lines, as she said, ‘Sometimes I do and sometimes I don’t.

It was now Jeannie’s turn to raise her eyebrows. Bev sat opposite Alison.

‘Right I see and today you don’t?’ Alison continued with the colouring not answering this question. Jeannie stood back from the table addressing Bev.

‘I think it was too boisterous for her today, with 4 other children the noise level was quite high at times.’ She inclined her head towards the other side of the kitchen and Bev followed her. Jeannie opened the fridge door to take out the jug of water she had put in there earlier, and whispered to Bev. ‘Not sure what, but there’s something in the den that she doesn’t like, no not doesn’t like - is terrified of’. Bev screwed her eyes up as though asking for help. ‘What?’

Jeannie made a big deal of getting out glasses for the children from the dresser whispering now. ‘No idea, but it’s something in that den’.

Bev stopped, thought then said to Jeannie,

‘No worries I have a good idea what it is, were they OK apart from that?’

Jeannie stopped and said, ‘Absolutely.’ ‘Little Joe is a completely different child, our Joe and he are best of friends and making lots of noise and trouble.’ ‘The girls have been great to Alison and coming out of school all was fine.’ ‘They went upstairs to get changed when we got back and then went outside for a time.‘ ‘Of course it started to rain so they came back inside decided to play on the X Box and that was it.’ ‘Alison came out trembling, so I said she could keep me company, didn’t think it was my place to find out why’.

Bev turned away to get herself a glass of wine.

‘No Jeannie you’re right, you behaved exactly as you should have, we can deal with that.' She took a bottle of wine from the wine cooler built into the kitchen units and opened it swiftly.

The door opened and Dave walked in.

‘Hi, just the sort of welcome I like’, he said this as he picked up the glass of cold Sauvignon Blanc that Bev held out, he nodded to Alison and raised his eyes to Bev. She quickly

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