Welcome to Murder Island (Laura Sutton Mysteries Book 1) by Maria Stamford

Author:Maria Stamford [Stamford, Maria]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-04-07T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

“What now?” Kate said when we were back in the car waiting for Pat to pull out onto the road.

I groaned. “I was going to ask you the same thing.”

“It wasn’t Owen Campbell, was it?”

I shook my head. “It doesn’t seem like it. Not from the way he reacted. We need Pat to confirm when Walter left his facility.”

We got back on the road. Kate was fiddling with the radio when she suddenly slapped the dash. “Ah no. I forgot to tell Pat about calling into the commune. Do you still want to go?”

“I don’t know.” I sighed. “Is there any point? We didn’t see anyone from the commune last night or this morning. There’s no link there.”

“And I can’t imagine Derry had anything to do with them,” Kate said. “They’re squatting on that land. It’s not like they can sell it to him.”

“That must have driven him crazy.”

“No doubt,” Kate said. “I’d say he was doing everything he could to track down the owner. But he’d have had no reason to approach the people living there.”

“This is so frustrating. We need to know what was going on in Derry’s life if we’re going to track down the person who murdered him. There has to be something we’re not seeing. It seems like lots of people disliked him but that’s not enough to go on.” I bit my lip. “Something Owen said stuck with me. He met Derry coming from the direction of the hotel. What was Derry doing down there? Nothing was open. I went for a walk this morning and saw that for myself. Is there a property down there he could have been selling?”

“Nothing has sold lately. And there’s nobody living down there except Cliona in the B&B.” She turned to me excitedly. “You said she reacted badly when you said who you were. Are you sure she didn’t mention Derry?”

I nodded even though it felt like a long time ago, I remembered everything Cliona said clearly. Probably because it had been one of the weirdest encounters of my life. “I’m certain. She got a strange look in her eyes but she didn’t say anything about him.”

“What I don’t get is how he ended up in the hotel. Cliona wouldn’t have had a key. So how could she have got him in there?”

I shook my head. “What we need is his phone. That’ll tell us who he’s been in contact with.”

Kate baulked. “Are you mad? We can’t go to a crime scene and start rifling through his pockets. Especially not you. And I’m not doing it either. There are laws against that sort of thing.” She smirked. “There should be laws against flowery hammers too.”

I laughed despite my frustration. “Oh, I agree with you. Tell that to my colleague who gave it to me. I’ll definitely never accept anything like that again.”

“Good. That’s one less stereotype in the world at least.” A smile played on her lips. “You know, Derry’s house is coming up on the left.

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