The Blood Pit by Kate Ellis

Author:Kate Ellis [ELLIS, KATE]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Published: 2011-01-06T05:00:00+00:00

Trish Walton was only too glad to get away from Foxglove House and Annette Marrick’s self-pitying complaints. On her return to the police station, she couldn’t stop thinking about Petronella’s revelation. Marrick’s stepdaughter hadn’t really been considered as a serious suspect and, as far as she knew, she had no connection with Simon Tench. But, on the other hand, her alibis for both murders were shaky and if you opened enough cupboards, all kinds of skeletons were likely to tumble out. And Charlie Marrick had raped her, which was motive enough in Trish’s book for that particular murder.

Steve’s vindication was the talk of the CID office. The consensus of opinion was that it was a triumph for common sense against the sort of villain who can mete out brutality to his victims but can’t take even the lightest tap when he’s on the receiving end. Police one, villains and their briefs nil. An honourable win.

DCI Heffernan promised to break the happy news to Steve and tell him that he was to report for work first thing tomorrow. They needed all the manpower they could get.

Heffernan seemed to be in an unexpectedly good mood, considering he had two unsolved murders and an unidentified skeleton on his hands. He told Trish to knock off early at half four. She’d had a tough few days nursemaiding the Marrick ménage, he said before telling her to go off and enjoy herself. Trish hadn’t turned down his offer. She was glad to get away from the pressure of the incident room. And besides, she’d seen a pair of particularly desirable shoes in a Morbay shop a week or so ago and she was wondering whether they were still there.

She drove out to Morbay and, when she’d visited the shoe shop and decided that the shoes were too uncomfortable and far too expensive, she returned to her car and sat there for a while, thinking. She was within walking distance of Steve’s flat. He would be returning to work first thing the next morning so maybe she should pay him a call and bring him up to speed on the case. After all they had been close once and, even though Rachel Tracey, her housemate, kept telling her she was well rid of him, there was still a slight pull there, a faint attraction normally suppressed, which floated to the surface and bobbed there occasionally.

Trish climbed out of her car and walked down the busy streets to Steve’s flat. But as she arrived at the front door, she experienced a sudden flurry of panic. What if he wasn’t in? What if he took her visit the wrong way? Interpreted it as a come-on?

She stood on the doorstep, shifting from foot to foot, in two minds whether to leave there and then and forget the whole thing. She was only there on impulse after all. But then Steve was a fellow officer and he had been falsely accused. She was giving him the support of a colleague and making certain he had the necessary information to do his job properly.

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