A Ghost at the Door by Michael Dobbs

Author:Michael Dobbs [Dobbs, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781471111549
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK

Alcatraz must have been more fun than this, he thought, when he stirred the following morning, stiff from a night of restlessness on an inadequate mattress covered in heavy-duty plastic. The custody cell at Charing Cross was totally charmless, stripped of any comforts. Four solid walls covered in scratches of graffiti, a bare and easily scrubbable floor, a high window and a concrete plinth just wide enough to take the plastic mattress. The door was steel and when it closed made the sound of a falling guillotine. Yet the cell seemed the least of his troubles. He hoped he wouldn’t be kept here long – Hughie Edwards would surely establish he couldn’t be involved – but the death of Delicious had left him twisting in agony. He was the reason she’d come to Britain, him and his father and Susannah Ranelagh. He liked her, they made sparks together, could have become lifelong friends in this life, let alone the next. Now she was dead. His fault.

And he hadn’t seen Jemma in days, hadn’t talked with her in weeks. That was probably his fault, too. But where the hell had she been these last couple of nights? Staying over at a friend’s, punishing him, making him sweat, it was that sort of passion and unpredictability that he loved, but even so . . .

Would he have had sex with Delicious if his phone hadn’t begun to ring? He’d never know, not now. But as he considered his own shortcomings he began to realize that his early release might not be as easy as he’d anticipated. If he’d had sex with her his DNA would’ve been all over the place, but even so it wouldn’t take Hughie’s men long to discover that he’d visited her hotel and spent some time in her room. Men in plaster casts tend to attract attention. And then there had been their long and final embrace. Her DNA over his clothes, with Hughie Edwards jumping to all the wrong conclusions. Jemma would jump to the wrong conclusion, too; damn it, in her current mood he might have to ask the DCI to keep him locked up for his own protection.

He soon found out he was right. Wrong conclusions were piling up so high he’d need a rope and oxygen to climb over them.

‘OK, Harry, let’s go over your story one more time, shall we?’ Edwards said as a little later they gathered once again in the interview room, van Buren in attendance. He opened a blue case file in front of him and made a point of studying it, even though he knew precisely what it said. He had to make the suspect believe he knew the answers. He looked up with grey, enquiring eyes that were red at the rims with doubt. ‘Let’s start with this, shall we? The victim’s DNA all over your clothes.’ He threw an evidence bag onto the table between them. It was Harry’s shirt. ‘Why don’t we have a go at explaining that?’

‘She was just saying goodbye.

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