Those People by Louise Candlish

Author:Louise Candlish
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2019-06-10T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER

19

ANT

He had scarcely picked up the WhatsApp message from Ralph—Cops asking for alibis for night before accident, can you believe it?—when a detective had arrived at his door. Bruised and dispirited from Em’s departure, Ant had phoned into the office to say he’d remembered a doctor’s appointment and would be working from home for the day, so DC Shah was lucky to have caught him in. Would he have turned up at Ant’s office if he hadn’t? How serious was this?

A skinny, long-limbed guy in a suit and tie, Shah was disarmingly well prepared, referring to Ant’s doorstep chat with the uniformed officer on the afternoon of the eleventh without once looking at his notes. His pad was large, with a soft blue cover. Did he expect to fill it with details of Ant’s suspicious habits?

“In light of developments, I’m interested in the period between Friday evening at about six thirty and Saturday morning at about eight thirty,” he explained unsmilingly.

Between Booth and Jodie leaving for the pub and Amy Pope knocking at the door, Ant thought. So it was just as Booth had threatened and Ralph had warned: they, the victims, were now suspects in Amy’s death. The world had gone mad!

“I was here, helping my wife get ready for a visit to her parents with our baby son. She postponed it because of what happened and headed off last night, instead. I can give you her number, if you need her to confirm.” He suppressed a shudder at the memory of his public clash with Em the previous evening. “I hate you!” Though she had been the more obviously hostile, he had not been as caring as he might. Chastising her in front of the others the way he had. He’d felt ashamed of her, too conscious of what the Morgans might think of them. In their impotence, they’d been able to turn on each other far more easily than on the true cause. “Yes, so she went to bed first. I was just going up myself when Darren and Jodie came back and I heard the usual booming music.”

“Did you go round and ask them to turn it down?”

“No, I didn’t. As I told your colleague, there’s no point. And before you ask, no, I didn’t sneak out and unscrew his scaffolding bolts or whatever you say happened. I wouldn’t have a clue how to do that even if I wanted to. You’re welcome to check my Internet search history.” He regretted the suggestion the moment he made it, rushing to apologize. “I’m sorry. No, no one left the house, until we heard the scaffolding come down the next morning. I’m positive about that, yes, positive.”

God, he was sounding nervous. It was self-fulfilling, though, wasn’t it? Trained detectives must know that. You imagined them thinking, He’s acting guilty, and that made you act guilty. “Just let me know if I can help you with anything else,” he said, as DC Shah prepared to leave.

“Thank you. Just your

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