The Murder Loop by Ben Barnes

Author:Ben Barnes [Barnes, Ben]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloodhound Books

‘That went well,’ Devine said. ‘You enjoy being back?’

I should exercise caution here, just in case what I saw was something completely innocuous. But I know it wasn’t…

‘Good school,’ she said. ‘Presume your girls will go there.’

‘Expect so.’

‘What ages are they now?’

‘Chloe’s nine and Lily is seven.’

‘You might be presenting to them at some point so.’

‘I hope I’ll have passed the baton on then. Promotion or two, or three – or a lottery win!’

And if somebody else came in and hit on one of your daughters when they were sixteen or seventeen, what would you say? What would you do?

She left a long silence and then asked the question.

‘What was that piece of paper you gave to the girl at the end?’

‘To Alex? Name of a book on forensics. She wants to study it at college.’

A book recommendation – really?

‘What’s the book – anything I should read?’

‘You probably know it already. Forensic Pathology by Stafford. The guy who ran the Met lab in London for twenty years.’

He’s good, she thought. Between the school and the car, I gave him a small amount of time to recover his poise, and he not only did so, but came up with something plausible. If I asked Alex, I wonder what her answer would be? But he probably assumes I won’t.

‘Why the big interest?’ he asked.

‘No reason.’

He carried on as if the questions had never arisen, giving no air of a man whose motives had just been challenged. For the rest of the short journey back to the station, he wittered on about music.

Again, Cass tuned out, and wondered whether to say anything to Finnegan. She had always been steadfastly loyal to her colleagues, and nobody in the force liked a rat, but this was different. She’d have to find a way to broach it with Finnegan, even if her superior officer would, if for nothing more than a slightly easier life, look the other way. After all, it wasn’t as if Cass had evidence of an offence.

And then it struck her. Finnegan had explicitly requested that Cass come and see her when she arrived back at the station. Finnegan had also ensured it was Cass who went in the place of Noel Ryan. Finnegan had arranged the whole thing on purpose – which could only mean she had her suspicions too.

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