CHAIN REACTION an absolutely addictive crime thriller with a huge twist (Detective Mike Nash Murder Mystery Book 12) by BILL KITSON

Author:BILL KITSON [KITSON, BILL]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Joffe Books crime thriller and mystery
Published: 2021-01-11T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

The morning after Nash’s visit to the Miners Arms, he walked into Helmsdale Police Station as his mobile alerted him to a new text message. This one was from Daniel. He read it and smiled. Clearly, his son was enjoying his holiday, and reading between the lines, being thoroughly spoilt by Clara and David. The last part of Daniel’s text puzzled him. It read, ‘Going for a trip tomorrow. You’d like it.’

What was that all about? Nash gave a mental shrug; no doubt he’d find out in due course; probably some new water park or similar attraction.

Sergeant Binns was on the phone, and judging by his expression and tone of voice, the usually amiable uniformed officer was less than happy. Nash thought it better not to interrupt, so he waved a hand in greeting and mouthed ‘morning,’ but Binns lifted a hand, signalling him to wait. Nash halted, listening to Binns’ valedictory message.

‘You’d better get someone to bring them here immediately. Don’t get distracted or find something else with a higher priority. This situation should never have been allowed to happen. I dread to think what Inspector Nash will say when he hears about it. And as for the chief constable, if she wants to see you, I’d wear two pairs of underpants.’

Binns slammed the receiver down and glared at the phone for a second. He looked up as Nash spoke. ‘My detective skills, which you’ve occasionally called into question, lead me to deduce that something or somebody has upset you, Jack. So tell me, what it is that I’m going to be angry about?’

Binns took a deep breath before he began. ‘I was booking a guy a couple of days ago, a druggie who had tried to snatch a woman’s handbag. Well, he was drugged up, and making no sense. It was so bad that the doctor had him moved to the rehab clinic.’ After noticing the expression on Nash’s face, he added, ‘With God’s agreement,’ using the chief constable’s nickname derived from the initial letters of her name, Gloria O’Donnell, as much as from her position of authority. ‘Anyway, during the course of his ramblings he mentioned a woman’s name. He kept repeating something along the lines of ‘what are you doing about finding Samantha’. That name rang a bell when I linked it to his address. That led me to send a couple of men to the place just to check that she was there. Her full name is Samantha Frost and she has a string of convictions for shoplifting and prostitution. The officers reported back that according to the neighbours she hadn’t been seen for a good while.’

‘Go on, Jack, where is this leading?’

‘That’s where I went yesterday morning, to the rehab clinic to talk to Swift. It seems if you need something doing right, you have to do it yourself,’ he added, the anger in his voice unmistakable. ‘Swift was no longer talking gibberish, and he confirmed he hadn’t seen her for well over a week or so.

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