Deadly Silent by Ann Girdharry

Author:Ann Girdharry [Girdharry, Ann]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-05-06T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 32

Once they were in the car and Tom started the engine, the alarm on both Tom’s watch and Grant’s phone sounded. Diane and Tom exchanged a glance.

‘T minus thirty minutes, boss,’ Tom said as his alarm stopped.

Grant silenced his. Half an hour until the in-laws came for dinner. He had time. ‘Right. Let’s get over to Lin’s.’

Diane turned to him. ‘This isn’t hanging together. Naomi’s passed away and Lin’s missing – I don’t like it.’

‘I know. I’ll call it in and see if there have been any reports from the public of women matching Lin’s description, maybe distraught, or wandering, or acting strangely. What are you thinking?’

‘I don’t know. The parents went out and Lin didn’t come to stay with Naomi? I can’t help wondering if Lin was there when Naomi died. Why would she ignore urgent messages from her mother? They’re in constant communication. It doesn’t make sense.’

Grant agreed. A girl devoted to her sister who suddenly went missing at the same time her sister died? The parents were right to be afraid. His thoughts were grim as they drove to Lin’s apartment.

Mrs Chen had given them a key and they were quickly inside. It didn’t take them long to discover the worst.

‘Oh my god, no,’ Diane said. She knelt by the bath to check for Lin’s pulse. ‘Nothing.’

‘No, no, no! Tom, let’s get her out,’ Grant said. He pointed to a mobile phone which lay underwater on Lin’s lap. ‘What’s that doing here? As we lift her try not to touch it. I’ll start compressions. Diane, call an ambulance. There might still be a chance.’

Though Grant wanted to believe it, he doubted it were true. The water was cold and so was Lin. Her lips and skin had a bluish tinge.

They kept up artificial respiration and chest compressions until the ambulance crew arrived and took over. The paramedics tried everything they could, but there was no reviving her.

A second young woman dead in as many days. No! This was so wrong. He had been taken by surprise. He’d not been expecting it. The killer, because now he was convinced they were dealing with a murderer, had sprung it on them. Blind-sided them. Fooled them. Why did he think this was murder? Because of the mobile phone. True, it could be a coincidence but Grant didn’t believe in coincidences. Phoebe and Lin – two girls, two deaths and two mobile phones, and he had never known nor heard of a suicide victim taking a mobile phone into the bath with her.

It should not have been Lin. A woman who cared for her sister and who had been supporting her family, who had accepted his questioning to the best of her ability, shouldering it with a quiet good grace. Grant clenched his fists.

His clothes were soaking from when they’d lifted Lin out of the bath. He stared at his wet trousers.

‘This has been made to look like a suicide.’ He could hear anger in his own voice.

‘Agreed,’ Tom said.

‘It’s very convincing coming at the same time as Naomi’s death.

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