Diary of a War Crime: A gripping, London crime thriller (A DC Ruth Hunter Murder File Book 1) by Simon McCleave

Author:Simon McCleave [McCleave, Simon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Stamford Publishing
Published: 2021-01-13T22:00:00+00:00

RUTH AND LUCY JOINED the A3 and headed north towards London. They had said very little about their conversation with Safet Dudic. Ruth was digesting what he had told them. Why was he lying to them? Did he know about Hamzar Mujic’s sighting of Simo Petrovic?

They stopped at some traffic lights. Ruth gazed up at the sky that was darkening with clouds. She wished it wouldn’t rain. She was hoping to take Ella up to the swings on Clapham Common after nursery. Ella had only asked where ‘Daddy’ was a couple of times. Ruth explained that he was just staying with a friend. Ella shrugged. She was used to Dan’s nocturnal life and so his disappearance from their lives hadn’t struck her as anything particularly new.

‘Dudic knew, didn’t he?’ Lucy said, breaking Ruth’s train of thought.

‘About Petrovic?’

‘Yeah. He wasn’t surprised by the news that Hamzar Mujic had seen him.’

‘Not one bit. And he was terrified by the time we left.’

‘I’ve seen grief and shock before. But that wasn’t it. He was shit scared.’

‘Scared that he is going to be next?’ Lucy suggested.

Ruth shrugged. ‘Possibly. But why not tell us what he knows?’

‘Maybe he doesn’t trust the police? From what I remember, the Bosnian police were mainly Serbian. They were implicated in war crimes against Muslim civilians.’

‘That would explain it,’ Ruth said.

‘We have four ageing Bosnian Muslims who grew up in the same village. They’re all in touch with each other to varying degrees. What happens when Mujic sees Petrovic at Waterloo?’ Lucy asked.

Glancing into the wing mirror, Ruth noticed a black BMW behind them. It pulled out for a few seconds as it tried to overtake them.

‘He rings them all. He tells them who he’s seen. This is the man that ruined their lives and murdered their friends and family,’ Ruth said. She glanced back and saw that the BMW was still very close behind.

‘What’s with the BMW behind us? she asked.

‘God knows. I thought it was a boy racer with a small knob.’

Ruth smiled. ‘Usually is ... You think they decided to do something with this information about Petrovic?’

Lucy nodded. ‘Yes. Maybe they decided that they don’t trust the police with it, so they’re going to contact a journalist?’

‘That doesn’t explain the missing papers from Mujic’s flat. The stuff that had been ripped from the board,’ Ruth said. ‘He was working on something that someone didn’t want us to see.’ She looked over at Lucy. ‘They were tracking Petrovic down themselves and they were going to murder him.’

‘Except Petrovic and his cronies found out and decided to kill them all first.’

Ruth raised an eyebrow. ‘Slight problem with our theory.’

‘Which is ...?’

‘How does Petrovic find out that these ageing vigilantes are planning for his death?’

‘No idea. Maybe they asked the wrong person or went to the wrong place?’ Lucy glared in her rear-view mirror. ‘Bloody idiot! It’s a single-lane, you dickhead.’

Ruth frowned as she looked again in the wing mirror.

‘Problem?’ she asked.

‘I don’t know. This BMW has been behind us since we passed the turning to Chessington,’ Lucy said quietly.

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