Aquafit is Murder (A Knot Hill Mystery Book 1) by K.A. Edwards

Author:K.A. Edwards [Edwards, K.A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: GLUE Fiction
Published: 2017-06-17T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 16

Jenna and Howe raced to the car, leaving Rose Denbigh with the Maynards.

‘What’s up?’ Jenna asked, only making it into the passenger seat a second before Howe put his foot down and screamed away, bumping over the pavement again.

‘Angie was attacked. The house is on fire!’

‘What? How?’

‘Don’t know. Oh, God, Jenna. Couldn’t be that Beverly character again, could it?’ Howe was grey and his lips tinged with blue. ‘Why Angie?’

He turned on the siren and lights and they sped through Knot Hill, heading for the small semi-detached house he lived in with Angie and the children. They saw the smoke from a block away. Howe groaned, swerved and almost clipped a post box.

‘Joe, Joe, it will be okay. Listen. The fire engines are already there.’

By the time they arrived the firemen had extinguished the blaze and uniformed officers were cordoning off the scene. The road was full of curious people. It was a cul-de-sac, the houses semi-detached and identical. From what Howe had told her they were a friendly bunch who socialised and babysat one another’s children and pets. A middle-aged woman in a tracksuit was wandering about with a thermos flask and a huge tray of sandwiches, which she distributed to the firemen, police and anyone else in need of a snack.

Angie and the children were in the street being comforted by a teenager in jeans and hoodie. Jenna and Howe jumped out of the car and ducked under the police tape. Jenna flashed her credentials at the fireman in charge. ‘What happened?’

‘It’s an odd one, Ma’am. I thought it was a kitchen accident. We get lots of those. And faulty electrics. This one is very peculiar.’

‘And are you going to share any information or do I need to figure it out myself?’ snapped Jenna.

The fireman cleared his throat. ‘Sorry. Well, and this needs to be confirmed, I’d swear someone tossed a Molotov cocktail through the front window. In Knot Hill? At a copper’s house?’

‘Anyone hurt?’ asked Jenna.

‘No, that’s the weird thing. The wife said someone put a note through the front door, warning them. Here it is.’ He handed over a scrap of paper in an evidence bag.

GET OUT THE HOUSE.

Jenna stared at the note, written in a black sharpie. ‘It’s covered in sooty fingerprints. The lab might be able to retrieve a few partials, if we’re lucky. House safe now?’

‘Yes, Ma’am. Front room and hall are gutted, but not as bad as it could have been. The structure’s unsound so we can’t let anyone in. Not yet.’

‘Thanks,’ said Jenna and went over to Howe and Angie. The baby was crying and the other two were hanging on Howe’s leg, with ash-streaked faces. ‘Joe, Angie, are you hurt? The kids?’

Angie shook her head. ‘No, thank goodness. The note freaked me out so I grabbed the kids and went out the back door and then there was a crash and an explosion in the lounge and the house was on fire. My neighbour called the fire brigade. It only took them two minutes to get here because the station’s at the end of the road.

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