A Game of Minds by Priscilla Masters

Author:Priscilla Masters [Masters, Priscilla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781448304448
Publisher: Severn House Publishers
Published: 2020-05-27T23:00:00+00:00

TWENTY-FIVE

She might have resented the tense atmosphere between Simon and his wife, but the house seemed eerily quiet without them and she took a moment to steady herself. ‘Stupid,’ she told herself.

Walking through into the kitchen she found that Simon had left a note on the kitchen table simply saying they’d headed off for a few days’ holiday. Good idea. Claire put her bag down and linked her phone to the charger. She had the place to herself – again. Bliss. It felt a welcome situation but also strange, foreign and unreal. A bit lonely and isolated. Even though it was late she was tempted to pick up the phone, speak to either Adam or Adele or even Grant, but she desisted. She wanted to think. She needed to think. She always had concerns about a number of patients and usually a glass of wine and the peace and quiet of home settled her mind. But not tonight. Her mind was disordered. The case of Jonah Kobi and the missing girl was disturbing her.

She slept badly that night, tossing and turning through turmoil, dreams of the dead girl now alive, now dead. Body tossed somewhere but never found, Kobi wagging his finger at her, as though he was a schoolteacher telling her off for poor spelling or not handing in her homework. He had assumed a dominant role in her mind, and when she woke she was hot and sweaty. She showered, slipped on her dressing gown and went online to read the news headlines as she drank some coffee.

When you first wake and read the headlines, they do not initially sink in.

She read them three times before realizing what was being said.

And then she understood.

Just a small paragraph.

Police are to reopen the case of missing schoolgirl, Marvel Trustrom.

There it was, in black and white. Why hadn’t Willard told her they were going public with this? To flush something or someone out?

It is understood that in the hope of finding out the truth behind the disappearance of schoolgirl Marvel Trustrom, who disappeared in 2013 and whose body has never been found, a forensic psychiatrist has been visiting Jonah Kobi, the teacher currently serving four life terms for the murder of schoolgirls Petra Gordano and Jodie Truss in 2012, Teresa Palmer in 2014 and Shelley Cantor in 2015.

There was some detail about Kobi’s past and the murders but nothing new.

She sat back in her chair, sipped her coffee slowly and gave herself time to absorb this news and the anger she felt at her involvement being leaked to the press. It didn’t actually name her but there were few psychiatrists in Stoke-on-Trent and only one forensic psychiatrist. Her. For anyone in the know it wouldn’t take long to point a finger at her name.

So who had provided this particular little story? Anyone could have fed it to them. There were quite a few people now who knew she’d been asked to visit Kobi and plenty more who were aware that she actually had.

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