Dying To Tell by Jack Cartwright

Author:Jack Cartwright [Cartwright, Jack]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-08-13T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE

The house was cold and still. Freya dropped the little bag of shopping on the kitchen counter and flicked the kettle on. She always boiled water when she got home from work, gasping for a nice cup of tea. She almost always poured herself a glass of wine while the kettle was boiling too, and tonight was no different. The kettle would boil, then it would cool, and she’d probably do the same thing tomorrow, she thought, as she sipped her Chianti.

A couple of months ago, she would have stayed in her coat and work clothes, swapping her boots for slippers and then curling up beside her log burner. But now spring had arrived; the temperature had warmed to just a few degrees cooler than comfortable, instead of resembling the arctic tundra. It was warm enough for her to kick off her boots, find her most comfortable pyjamas, and curl up in her dressing gown beside the log burner.

She collected the Grant Sayer file from her dining room table, then walked through to the kitchen where she tipped the contents of the plastic shopping bag onto the worktop. A bag of one-minute rice with vegetables, a jar of pesto, and a block of cheese. It was an odd collection of items to buy, but while picking the items up, she had fancied cheese on toast, or pasta with pesto – and cheese, of course – or, if she really couldn’t be bothered to wait, rice.

Checking the food cupboard, she found her bread to be past its best, so she tossed it into the bin. She searched for pasta but remembered she had finished the little bag of penne a few nights before. So, with her scissors, she snipped the corner off the sachet of one-minute rice, chucked it in the microwave, slammed the door, and set it for one minute.

She hooked a finger into the file Chapman had prepared and studied the first page. It was just notes on Grant Sayer, including his date of birth, parents, a brief summary of the various homes he’d been in and names of the carers, and then a brief summary of his criminal record.

The list of homes he’d been in was far longer than his criminal record, which amounted to a caution for ABH against a boy who, according to Chapman’s notes, had a criminal record longer than Grant Sayer’s list of care homes.

The second and final entry on Grant Sayer’s record was for GBH and took place just two weeks before Poppy Gray was found dead. Chapman’s notes were an objective summary of the events, presented in a format that was easy for Freya to digest and interpret. Danny Osborne and Poppy Gray had sex. Grant had found them and beaten the living daylights out of Osborne. He’d beaten him so badly that Poppy had made an anonymous call to the emergency services giving them his location. With three broken ribs, a fractured femur, and a broken nose, Danny Osborne was in no fit state to walk.

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