Ghosts of the Past: A DCI Cieran Black Scottish Crime Thriller (DCI Cieran Black Scottish Crime Thrillers Book 8) by Ramsay Sinclair

Author:Ramsay Sinclair [Sinclair, Ramsay]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-08-12T00:00:00+00:00

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The hotel that had been organized for Cieran and his team was nicer than usual. Inside, the hotel was filled with modern furniture, and the lead detective might even go so far as to say that the interior was elegant. The hotel was housed inside a refurbished Victorian building boasting intricate stonework and tall, arched windows.

Polished wooden floors and rich, deep red carpeting filled the foyer, and an unlit fireplace sat in one corner. If a fire had been burning away, the space might have been described as cozy.

Booking enough rooms for each member of the team probably cost the crime campus no small sum, way more than the premier inns and the travel lodges that they typically got.

Detective Black suspected that was because this hotel was closer to the center of Edinburgh and was about as close to the crime scene as they could get without actually being on top of it.

Still, Cieran was grateful. If the front entrance of the hotel was this rich and luxurious, then he could only dream of how soft the bed might be. At least he might actually get a good night’s sleep that night.

According to the receptionist working the front desk, Sue and Taryn had apparently arrived an hour or so earlier and had already taken themselves up to their respective rooms, and if they were feeling as exhausted as he was, then the two women were probably already in bed, fast asleep.

Detective Hunter was the one who volunteered to stay back and wait for the keys from the front desk, while Cieran and Fraser carried the team’s bags upstairs in order to save them some time. The lack of available elevators was an unfortunate side effect of the hotel being as historical as it was.

The two men moved in relative silence, occasionally interrupted by words of encouragement or directions.

“Just one more flight,” Cieran panted, carrying both his and one of Detective Hunter’s bags over his shoulders.

Fraser was trailing a bit behind him, managing to carry both Detective Hunter’s other bag and his own two. “Jesus,” he groaned, “what on earth has she packed in here? I swear I only brought my kit and a couple of pairs of clothes. It feels like she packs away her entire flat. Bricks and all.”

Suddenly, there was a break in the relative silence, and running up behind them on the stairs was Leigha, proudly dangling sets of keys from her fingers. “It’s not my entire flat,” she said, beaming as she effortlessly jogged up the stairs. “Just a couple of select works from my library.”

“Ah! So literary bricks then.” Fraser chuckled.

Leigha rolled her eyes playfully, then moved past Fraser in order to get to Cieran. “You know what?” she replied, a smirk spreading over her full lips. “Just for that comment, I’m not going to help you.”

She reached out to take her bag off of Cieran’s shoulder, but the dark-haired detective pulled away from her. “Don’t worry about it,” he said. “I’ve got it.”

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