The Upper Hand by A. L. Fraine

Author:A. L. Fraine [Fraine, A. L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-07-23T16:00:00+00:00

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Kate watched Nathan practically throw the file he was holding onto his desk as he walked up to it. She knew how he was feeling.

The records of Patrick’s online gaming were about as solid an alibi as anyone was likely to have. They clearly showed he was online until the early hours on the night of the murder, and so was Robyn. With them backing up each other’s stories, added to the possibility of them getting witness statements from the other people they’d been playing with online, it was crystal clear that Patrick and Robyn were almost certainly, not the killers.

“Looks like we’re back to square one,” Nathan muttered.

Kate nodded. “Yeah. Now what? It feels like a step backwards.”

“Nathan sighed as he sat down. “You can’t think of it like that. We’ve eliminated two possible suspects who we now know, are not the killers.”

“I know. It just felt right, though. Everything seemed to fit.”

Nathan shrugged. “And yet, it didn’t.” He turned to his desk as Kate took her seat and logged into her computer. The next hour was taken up with entering details in the system and passing reports around.

An hour after the interview, the system alerted her to a new piece of evidence that had just come in.

“Are you seeing this?” Nathan asked.

“Just looking now,” Kate said and opened up the report. It detailed emails between Jordan and Naomi, through an account on Jordan’s computer that was not affiliated with his work.

It didn’t take much reading for her to find some of the juicier parts.

“Alright, well, I think that makes it abundantly clear that something was going on between Naomi and Jordan,” Kate said as she read an email from Naomi describing what she was going to do to Jordan that night when they worked late.

“It certainly does. We’ll have to read through these, but we should look at getting Naomi back in to answer some more questions.”

“She’ll have a hard time denying all this,” Kate agreed, as she saw DI Mason wandering over.

“You know, I always enjoy my visits to this part of the office,” he said.

“We sent you the report from today,” Nathan said.

“I know. I read it. So, what was all that in Guildford town centre earlier on? Couldn’t be a little more discreet perhaps?”

“He made a run for it; we couldn’t let him get away.”

DI Mason sighed. “Good thing you had Kate with you, otherwise he would have.”

Kate caught Nathan’s glance at her and then looked up at Sam. “Nathan was right behind me, he would have caught him part way up Tunsgate had the chase not ended when it did.”

“Would he now?”

“He would,” Kate replied, her voice full of confidence.

“And you’ve just let him go?”

“Despite good intelligence that led to our suspicions about him, he has a solid alibi backed up by multiple witnesses and evidence. He didn’t do it,” Kate replied.

“Alright. So you have some more leads?”

“We do, we’ll follow them up tomorrow,” Nathan answered.

“See that you do.”

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