DEADLY SHORES an utterly addictive crime thriller full of twists (Detectives Harvey & Birch Murder Mystery Book 3) by KERRY BUCHANAN

Author:KERRY BUCHANAN [BUCHANAN, KERRY]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Joffe Books crime thriller and mystery
Published: 2022-04-18T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 26

Blue flashing lights appeared in the distance before Aaron heard the siren. A moment later, an ambulance careered around the corner into view, unbalanced on the poorly cambered country road.

He stood back to let the paramedics at Asha. “We’re police officers,” he said as they cut away her trousers. “There’s shrapnel in her leg. I tried to stem the bleeding, but—”

He was babbling. One of the paramedics stood up to face him, a small, blonde woman with kind eyes.

“It’s okay, son. We’ve got her now. Sit down before you fall down, and we’ll get to you as soon as we can. You’ve done fine, now leave it to us.”

She was right. He was swaying where he stood. He let himself collapse on to the frosty grass, leaned his head against the wall, and began to shiver convulsively. Asha would be okay. She was in the best possible hands.

He must have drifted off, because it took a hand on his shoulder to wake him, and then he tried to scramble to his feet, almost head-butting a uniformed officer in the face as he did so. Asha was being stretchered into the back of the ambulance, a drip hanging above her.

Her eyes flickered open, and she managed a wan smile before doors slammed shut. Then the lights went back on and it sped away in a flying hail of gravel.

“Sir?” a voice said from behind him. “I need to check you over now. Would you come with me, please?”

The diminutive paramedic badgered him into following her past police cars and fire response units to an ambulance car, where she pushed him into the passenger seat, shone lights into his eyes and asked him endless questions.

“How is my friend? Will she be okay?” he interrupted.

“They got the bleeding slowed down enough to move her, and she’ll go into surgery as soon as she reaches the hospital.”

“Thank you.”

She smiled up at him from her position, crouched on the grass verge, and for a moment he was content — until a voice like broken glass cut through his serenity.

“Detective Constable Birch. Report.”

The paramedic melted away and instead Patterson swam into focus, wrapped up in a coat with a high fur collar and with a fur hat pulled low on her brow so only her icy glare could be seen.

“We found the truck, ma’am,” he said. “It was in a building.” He waved vaguely in the direction of the huge barn. “I think it must have been rigged, like that car last year at the hospital.” He swallowed, remembering. “Asha saved us both. She knew something was wrong, and she got us both out of there before it went up.”

Patterson raised an eyebrow. “Not quite, it seems to me.”

“If she hadn’t made me run, we’d both be dead, ma’am.” The words came out harsher than he’d intended, but he needed her to know that Asha had saved his life.

“Did you see any sign of an incendiary device? Anything at all?”

“No, ma’am.” He tried to think back to that huge, dark, empty space.

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