A Hidden Girl by D. K. Bohlman

Author:D. K. Bohlman [Bohlman, D. K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bohl Publishing
Published: 2019-08-29T16:00:00+00:00

2 WEEKS EARLIER

Burton sees an opportunity

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For some reason, the only regular newspaper the prisoners in Barlinnie jail could get at the moment was the Evening Times. Not the best read as far as Alan Burton was concerned, but anything was better than staring into space or having to converse with the less intelligent of the prison population. He grabbed it just before another of the inmates pounced on it.

‘I was gonna read the sports there, buddy.’

‘I’ll make sure you’re next, mate. No worries.’

His competitor glowered at him, then thought better of a confrontation and retreated to the TV corner at the other end of the lino-floored recreation area.

Burton sat down on a hard chair, nothing more comfortable left.

The day’s headlines didn’t catch his attention so he turned past the first couple of pages and started to catch up with the Scottish news.

Riddled throughout those pages were reports of various crimes and minor misdemeanours. It was a game he played with himself, trying to match these wrongdoings with his known criminal network. Sometimes he recognised the type of crime, other times he was just plain guessing. The style of the reporting these days, though, meant the sort of detail that would really help him wasn’t there. Occasionally a follow-up report of a trial outcome proved him right. It made him feel connected with the outside world. A bit more alive.

The university researcher from Inverness who’d gone missing in Budapest, though, that wasn’t likely to be one of his associates or anyone known to him. That was a foreign job, for sure. Hard to say what made someone disappear … could be a number of things. Petty theft gone wrong. A date that had soured. Not one for him to work out. He passed on.

The next felony reported was a car-jacking and valuables grab. Now that one … that one could be the work of a number of people he knew. As well as the up-comers, of course … there were always a few young lads who fancied themselves as pros. Some would succeed. But this one … he’d take a bet on Gaz Worth. Gaz was an old hand, he’d been done for it once to his knowledge. He was the kind of guy who didn't know when to stop doing something that had probably run out of track for him. He made a mental note to check on the outcome of that one.

He worked his shoulders around, relaxing them and letting them drop. He was enjoying this and leafed through the next couple of pages, searching for his next case. A good, clean murder would be just perfect.

It amused him to see a case reported over time when he just knew who had done it and yet the police were making no headway into solving it. He remembered one just like that and dropped his head back, had a little internal giggle to himself. To his irritation, Neuman and Strick entered his thoughts once more, just as he was getting nice and relaxed.

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