Crop Circles, Cows, and Crazy Aliens by Steve Higgs

Author:Steve Higgs [Higgs, Steve]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-12-24T06:00:00+00:00

Research. Friday, November 11th 1000hrs

‘Well, you gave me quite a list of subjects to explore. What I have is something interesting about the farm manager Gordon McIntosh.’

I joined James around his side of the desk so I could see what he was looking at.

‘He is on LinkedIn and his status says he is openly looking for investors. Look a little further and he is planning to set up a farm. It doesn’t say where, but I could call him posing as a potential investor and see what I can learn.’

I considered that for a moment. He was unhappy where he was and felt… what? Undervalued? No longer in charge? Undermined? It could be all of them or his decision to leave, if that is what it was, could be motivated by pay or the ill-health of a family member or anything really. Whatever it was, it wasn't incriminating. But, if he wanted investors, was he trying to buy Brompton Farm? Was he poisoning the cows to make the milk worthless in a bid to drive the current owners bankrupt? I would not put it beyond him.

‘Okay. What else?’

‘Well, there is more information about him in the pack I sent you. Background stuff mostly such as job history, marital status. Mr. McIntosh is an Army veteran, like Tempest. He served in the Falklands war as a helicopter pilot.'

I filed that away for later. It didn’t seem relevant.

‘One other thing I turned up pertains to the deceased.’

‘Go on.’

‘Tamara and Glen were not married. You referred to them several times as a married couple, but they weren’t. Semantics possibly, but Tempest tells me to give him all the information because one never knows what might be important later. Also, Tamara was still working in the pharmaceuticals industry.’

‘I’m sorry?’

‘I didn’t know if that was important or not, but again, you said that they were farmers and that it had been Tamara’s dream to pursue this lifestyle. Well, she was still working away a lot as she went around the country selling drugs.’

I thought about that for a moment, trying to make sense of the new information or to work out what it meant. ‘Can you stick with this? See what else you can turn up about the farmers and their staff?’

James said, ‘Sure.’ Without looking up from the screen.

‘I’ll let you know when I find something.’ His fingers started dancing on the keyboard. I took a pace to my left since I was standing right next to James and in his personal space.

I called Patience. ‘Are you alone now?’ I asked.

‘Yes, honey. Patience is alone. Are we off to bother young men?’

‘Sort of. I’ll explain on the way.’ I promised to collect her in half an hour and went to collect my coat.

Shoving my belongings back into my handbag, I tried to reassure myself that all I needed to do was keep chipping away at the pieces. There seemed to be so many of them though. So many facets to the case. Crop circles,

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