Angela Marsons - Deadly Cry by Angela Marsons

Author:Angela Marsons [Marsons, Angela]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781838887322
Publisher: Bookouture
Published: 2020-11-12T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Fifty-Four

Russell Southall shook his head for the fourth time, denying the truth of the news they’d just delivered.

They had driven the short distance from the crime scene to Nicola’s home, a comfortable four-bed detached property, to give devastating news for the third time in as many days to the partner of their latest victim. They had waited patiently while he tried to process the news, but he remained in a state of shock.

She guessed the man to be around five feet ten; he had dark hair beginning to grey around the temples. A tidy moustache and light beard gave his face a gentle, friendly appearance. His eyes were filled with pain.

"We understand how difficult this must be for you, Mr Southall, and obviously we want to catch the person responsible as quickly as possible," she reassured as her eyes wandered the room and landed on a photo of three children in between two miniature model Vespa scooters. The children in the photo appeared to vary in age from early to late teens.

"Your children?" Kim asked.

"Mine from a previous marriage," he said. "Nicola and I don’t have children together. We knew each other years ago but lost touch." He smiled sadly. "We met again in a friend’s pub around eleven years ago. I had no idea she was now famous. She liked that, I think," he said, wiping a tear from his eye. "That first night we didn’t even talk about it. We chatted about mutual friends and she wanted to know about my job as a sign maker. Despite the fame, she hadn’t changed a bit. She still loved to read a good book, was passionate about cats, liked to go to the theatre and took a long walk every day."

For a moment, it had seemed as though he had forgotten what he’d been told as he relived happier memories, but the mention of the walk brought him right back to Uffmoor and the fact that she was now dead.

He shook his head once again. "Who?… I mean… I just don’t understand..."

"Did your wife have any enemies?" Kim asked, seizing the opportunity to insert a question into his grief. "Had she been threatened at all?"

The fact that her phone had been taken could mean that it contained a link to the killer. The first two phones had not been taken.

"Not any more," he answered, shaking his head. "All that was behind us."

"All what?" Kim asked.

He sighed heavily. "When Nicola got that part in the soap everything changed. At first, it was amazing to see her get the recognition she deserved. She was earning ridiculous money compared to the living on which she’d scraped by. For a while, we enjoyed a bit of high life until the writers came up with that storyline. Her character got pregnant and lost the baby, sending her into a spiral of grief. She was excited to play the storyline, welcomed the challenge. And she played it well, too well."

Kim sat forward. "Go on."

"Her character

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