Dead End by Rachel Lynch

Author:Rachel Lynch
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781788630214
Publisher: Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Published: 2018-08-08T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 30

The autopsy had been carried out sixteen years ago, but it was still fresh in Ted’s mind.

The corpse was a mess. The propellers had ripped his skull apart, and there was tooth and bone embedded deep in the brain and the chest.

A kayaker had made the discovery. He’d alerted a local angler, who’d recognised the boat with its outboard motor still running beneath the surface, churning the bloody water, making it look like beetroot soup. The body had floated away and was making its way into the middle of the lake, and the police had to move swiftly to close it for the day. They’d faced angry steamer owners, swimmers and anglers, but it was non-negotiable. By the time a boat crew fished him out, he’d been nibbled by carnivorous perch, greedy for breakfast. One of the officers had vomited, only adding to the fish’s grim meal.

It took them three hours to perform the autopsy, and they’d taken over three hundred photos.

So when Ted received the call at the coroner’s office in Carlisle, he remembered the case straight away. He also remembered the sensationalism surrounding the death of a well-respected local man, and how the media ran the story for weeks as the Cumbria Constabulary deliberated its verdict. It was eventually decided that the death had been an accident. A particularly nasty accident. But not everyone believed it.

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