The Hanging Time: A gripping British detective thriller (Harriet Quinn Crime Thrillers Book 1) by Bilinda P. Sheehan

Author:Bilinda P. Sheehan [Sheehan, Bilinda P.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-23T16:00:00+00:00

It took only a couple of minutes for Drew to get the FLO’s up to speed but when he returned to the car, he started the engine up without saying a word, something Harriet was more than grateful for. She’d made enough of a fool of herself by sharing so much.

They sat in silence as the FLO’s approached the front door and knocked. It took a few minutes—Harriet’s heart seemed to beat louder with every second that passed—for Kate Whitly to answer the door and when she finally did, Harriet felt the tension in the back of her neck loosen.

“Were you as nervous as I was?” Drew asked as he pulled away from the curb, leaving the FLO’s to their job.

Harriet laughed, a release of the unspent tension that still gripped her body and Drew glanced over at her.

“You all right?”

She nodded. “Yeah, I’m fine. But yeah, I was nervous.”

He grinned and turned his attention back to the road. “Sian’s parents are staying with a relative nearest to here, maybe we should hit there before we go on to Aidan’s?”

Harriet nodded. The last thing she wanted at that precise moment was to submerge herself in the misery and trauma of such fresh grief. It had been hard enough with Kate Whitly and she at least had moved past the initial stages of shock. But it needed to be done.

“The file is there if you want to review it,” Drew said, indicating a pile of beige folders at her feet.

She scooped it up and was once again greeted with the teenagers smiling picture. It was so unfair.

Why them? Why these teenagers in particular? Harriet let the questions mull over in her mind and the germ of an idea began to form.

What commonalities did these three teens share?

She glanced down at the files again and grabbed Aidan’s file off the top. Flicking through the pages, she pulled the sheet with a list of his family out from among the others and scanned quickly down over the list.

“Damn.”

“What is it?” Drew glanced over at her.

“I thought I’d found something is all,” she said. “But it’s nothing.”

“Well what was it anyway?”

Harriet sighed and slid the sheet back into the file.

“Sian’s father is dead. Cancer, right?”

Drew nodded.

“Well, Jack Whitly’s father is also deceased. Car accident.”

Drew shot her an incredulous look. “And Aidan’s parents?”

“Both alive,” Harriet said and bit back the inappropriate giggle that threatened to erupt from her. “I never thought I’d feel such disappointment over something like that.”

Drew kept his attention trained on the road but Harriet could sense him mulling over everything she’d just said.

“It was a long shot anyway; I don’t think it could be so simple as all that.”

“Maybe,” Drew said cryptically.

Sitting back against the seat, Harriet closed her eyes and tried to picture the shadowy figure that had stalked the children. How did you get close enough to them to know everything about them? It seemed impossible and yet their killer had done just that.

There was obviously something she was missing and it made her uncomfortable to know that someone out there was so many steps ahead of her.

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