The Dying Beat: A Gripping Detective Mystery (The DI Hogarth Dying Game series Book 2) by Solomon Carter

Author:Solomon Carter [Carter, Solomon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Great Leap
Published: 2024-08-06T00:00:00+00:00

Nine

Hogarth and Palmer travelled to Maple Avenue in separate cars. There was an atmosphere between them, and Hogarth had no intention of enduring another argument on his way to Brookmyre. He hadn’t yet formed a plan of how to approach his ‘shake the tree’ method and hope of coming up with a strategy before he arrived was running thin. Which was bad news because he knew Melford was depending on him to come up with something. Hogarth had almost reached his destination, driving along the scruffy end of West Road with Maple Avenue a few streets ahead when his phone started to buzz. Hogarth wasn’t in the mood for talking, but Palmer’s new Golf was a few cars ahead in the traffic and he saw no reason to hurry if he didn’t have a plan. The phone call gave him an excuse to slow down and take his time. He pulled in a few yards beyond West Road’s Hand Car Wash, parked up, and checked his phone. Ahead, Palmer’s Golf disappeared around the bend.

Dina’s name was on screen again. For a woman like her, a second or third call seemed excessive, so he guessed she was cancelling their date. Shame. Hogarth found himself pining for their meeting, knowing her firm attitude was exactly what he needed at a time like this. That, and a little play. Such feelings were juvenile, he supposed, but he still pined.

“Dina?” he said, putting the phone to his ear. His eyes were fixed on his well-worn steering wheel, not noticing the SEAT hatchback as it pulled into the BP garage not far behind.

“Joe. You sound surprised.”

“Only pleasantly. What’s up?”

“You bringing up Maple Avenue like that prompted me to take a closer look. I asked my staff to look into that workman thing.”

“And?” said Hogarth, hopefully.

“Sorry. There’s still no workman, but it turns out there is some sort of anomaly there, one with pound signs attached. We’ve received a huge utility bill for the property. My staff mistakenly assumed it belonged to the previous owner, and would be transferred over, so they didn’t pursue, but they were wrong. If they’d brought it to me before, I would have told them so.”

Hogarth frowned, his eyes flitting around the car while not seeing a thing. He failed to notice a pair of eyes pass over his car from the traffic. A moment later, a set of brake lights flared in front of him, and a horn sounded at the vehicle’s sudden slow in pace. Hogarth glanced up and watched a Volvo saloon pull in outside a used car showroom ahead of him. A car pulling up outside a car showroom was no big deal. He ignored it. Besides, Dina wasn’t a time waster. If she had something to say, Hogarth was inclined to listen.

Ahead of him, the Volvo driver looked into his rear-view mirror, no more than a shadow with a pair of eyes. The driver looked at Hogarth, busy on his mobile, before he began to make a thorough inspection of the street ahead, and far behind them.

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