Death's Touch: A Chilling Essex Murder Mystery Novel (DS Tomek Bowen Crime Thriller Book 3) by Jack Probyn

Author:Jack Probyn [Probyn, Jack]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781805200406
Publisher: Cliff Edge Press
Published: 2023-10-16T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE

The feeling of the sand in her feet, melting between her toes. The sound of the crashing waves in the distance and the noise of their voices quickly being drowned out by it. The sensation of the bitter cold that managed to bite through the fabric of her Zara jeans and top. And the other sensation in her body that numbed her to the feeling of it all a little.

Just a sip. A sip of the vodka in Lucy’s bag. That was all she’d had. The girls wouldn’t let her have much more, because they said that they were responsible and it was their job to look after her and Sylvia and make sure nothing happened. And not to mention it wasn’t good for her. But the sip had been enough to go to her head and impair her reaction times.

So when they called her name, she didn’t hear it. She was too busy staring out at the water, at the shimmering blackness of the Thames Estuary before her.

‘Kash, are you coming or gonna just stand there like a lemon?’ asked Lucy Cleaves, Nick’s daughter, from the other side of the beach.

Kasia didn’t like lemons, but she also didn’t think there was anything wrong with being one.

Pushing that bizarre, and possibly vodka-induced, thought to the back of her mind, she bent down to pick up her shoes and then hurried across to the others. The rest of the group, Sylvia included, were situated a few feet from the water’s edge. The smell of salt and dried seaweed was heavy on this part of the beach, so thick that it clung to the back of her throat. The beach was a small stretch of sand in Old Leigh called Bell Wharf, completely deserted now, but typically heaving during summertime, or as soon as the sun made an appearance, with hordes of beachgoers cramming themselves into every available space. On the other side of the Thames Estuary were the dampened, sparkling lights of Kent, only a few miles away. Above, shining through a thin layer of cloud, was the moon, bright and full of splendour, the glow bright enough to illuminate her new friends’ faces.

Kathy, Vicky, Fiona, Yasmin and Lucy. And of course Sylvia.

They were all older than her (with the exception of Sylvia, who was only a few months younger) and she thought they were the best. They were funny, they were more experienced in life, in school and with boys, they were braver, they weren’t afraid to say what they thought, they were intelligent, they were beautiful. All of them. From head to toe. Each in their own way.

And they were more sophisticated too. Some of the girls she knew from her own year group were fascinated with boys and TikTok and the latest trends, but she wasn’t that interested in all of that. While, yes, she spent an abnormally long time on TikTok and all the other various social media platforms, she only did it because it helped fill the time, silence the anxiety.

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