All the Light: A GRIPPING THRILLER (DI Tracy Collier Book 6) by Emmy Ellis

Author:Emmy Ellis [Ellis, Emmy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-05-27T16:00:00+00:00

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The Past

Tracy sits at her desk, scrolling through image after sickening image of shots uploaded to the internet on a site they’d managed to close down last week. At twenty-three, she’s new to this side of policing—the seedy underbelly side, vastly different to walking or driving the beat, dealing with domestics, fights in pubs, theft, and all the other crap people get themselves into.

It’s her first stint at helping out the DI, and she wants to make a good impression, but she’s not sure this is the best way to do that. Kids. In poses they shouldn’t be in.

Like she’d been in once upon a time.

She’s shut her old life in her mind box for the most part, locking it all away, but sometimes, out of the blue, it creeps back in, and it’s doing that now.

Someone has taken digital pictures of Polaroid snaps. Of a little girl with a rainbow scarf around her eyes. The white edges of the Polaroid are worn, tinged with a beige hue, where they’ve either been handled too much or they’ve got stained somewhere down the line. A tea or coffee spill maybe.

The girl’s mouth is downturned, and in one close-up of her face, tears streak her ruddy cheeks. With the images of the other kids, Tracy had asked herself: What did they do to you? Where are you now? Are you screwed up?

With this child, she knows the answers.

Memories race back, as well as sounds and touches and breaths and smells and oh, fuck, every damn thing. She covers her mouth with her hand, glancing around the busy incident room to see if anyone’s watching her. They’re not. Bile races up, settling in her mouth, and she leans over and spits it in the bin, her face heating, her heart chuntering. Too fast. Too painful.

The rainbow-scarf girl with tears on her face becomes the adult with the same tears falling, and Tracy wipes them away, staring at the monitor and what’s displayed on there. Did her father upload them? Or was it his friend, John? She knows they’ll get away with it. The investigation has already proved the uploads were done by whoever owned the site, so punters would have sent them to him. All client data was blocked. Maybe someone, someday, will be able to unlock the code or whatever and find out who each individual is. For now, the site owner isn’t talking.

She’s meant to be looking for a missing six-year-old boy, but there are no boys here, just girls. Just her on this screen. Ten images of her innocent self, although she could argue she hadn’t been innocent there at all. No, the last time she remembers being innocent is before it all began.

DI John Aimes comes over, and she composes herself.

“Everything okay?” he asks, one hand on the desk, the other on the back of her chair. He leans over, too close, and peers at the screen.

“I wonder who that is?” he muses, shifting his gaze from the monitor to her.

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