Vanished Beneath: DS Lasser six (The Lasser series Book 6) by Robin Roughley

Author:Robin Roughley [Roughley, Robin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-02-01T05:00:00+00:00

Bannister drove like a maniac, lights flashing, siren wailing, his face distorted with an amalgamation of fury and disbelief.

'I don't fucking believe it,' he hissed as he stormed across a junction narrowly missing a refuse truck in the process.

Lasser kept his mouth closed and his feet buried in the carpet of the foot well.

'I mean, tell me it's a bad dream?' He glanced at Lasser, his eyes bulging.

Lasser shrugged a response and closed his eyes as Bannister barrelled past the Cherry Gardens public house.

Half a minute later, he hurtled onto the hospital car park and pulled up in front of Accident and Emergency.

As they climbed out a traffic warden waved towards them before shouting, 'You can't park there!'

Bannister stood with hands on hips as the man strode towards them.

'You'll have to move it.'

'Police business,' Bannister snapped.

'I don't care you can't leave it there,' he pointed at the car, his face stern.

Bannister dragged the keys from his pocket, 'OK fair enough.' He threw the keys at the warden who caught them and then looked at Bannister in amazement.

'What the hell do you think you're doing?'

'You'll be in your little hut, don't worry I'll come and find you.'

'But...'

'Look I don't have the time for this, now make yourself useful and park the bloody car!' he bellowed before turning and storming into the building.

Lasser shrugged at the warden before following Bannister into the air-conditioned hospital. Bannister was standing in front of PC Steve Black waving his arms, his face blotchy with anger.

'What the bloody hell happened?'

Black shuffled his feet, a porter pushing an empty wheelchair strode past the receptionist behind the desk frowned over at Bannister.

'Someone clobbered Spenner...'

'Spenner?'

'Yes, sir, he was on guard outside Elliot's room...'

'Not interested,' Bannister snapped. 'Just give me the details.'

'Someone gave Spenner a good hiding and then went into the room and killed Elliot.'

'Killed him, how?'

'Bludgeoned him to death with a metal bed pan.'

Lasser gave a quick shake of his head as if he'd heard wrong.

'A bed pan?' Bannister's face twitched in incredulity.

Black looked uncomfortable. 'That's what it looks like, sir.'

'Show me.'

They followed Black along the corridor and then took the lift to the third floor, as they walked into another bland corridor Lasser swallowed. This was the same ward that Cathy Harper had been taken to when she'd been attacked eighteen months earlier.

He could see DI Cooper standing in front of Spenner who was slumped in a plastic chair. At the far end of the corridor, a mixed group of nurses and patients were standing around gossiping about what had happened.

Bannister strode down the narrow beige tunnel with Lasser following close behind, Steve Black bringing up the rear.

'Good morning, sir,' DI Cooper said and then frowned as Bannister ignored him and pushed his way through the door. When Lasser tried to follow, Cooper grabbed his sleeve.

'Where do you think you're going, Sergeant?'

'I...'

'Stay here with the waste of space,' he jabbed a finger at Spenner before following Bannister into the room.

Doc Shannon was standing by the side of the bed, when he heard the door slam he glanced over his shoulder.

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