Guilty Waters by Masters Priscilla

Author:Masters, Priscilla [Masters, Priscilla]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781780106120
Publisher: Severn House Publishers
Published: 2014-10-21T07:00:00+00:00

‘Needless to say, Mandalay, the bed and breakfast the girls had been staying in, would be included in the area,’ she added.

Rush’s pale eyes widened now. ‘And the other girl’s phone?’

‘There has been no signal from Annabelle’s phone since Saturday, twentieth of July, sir.’

Rush’s voice was silky smooth as he spoke the next sentence. ‘Then I suggest the pair of you get back down to the bed and breakfast in Rudyard and start finding out what really has happened to the two girls.’ His voice was heavy with sarcasm. His parting expression left a chill in the room even after he’d stalked out.

Joanna was tempted to stick her tongue out at his receding narrow back until she caught Korpanski’s eye. His face was contorted with the effort of not laughing and after a minute she gave a chuckle. ‘Shit,’ she said. ‘They couldn’t have appointed anybody worse than him, could they? Sense of humour? Nil. He’s …’ She couldn’t find the words and what made it worse was the fact that he had come into this job already disliking her. She knew that. What she didn’t know was why. Where had that prejudice come from?

Then the reality of the situation hit her. She dropped her face into her hands. ‘You realize this puts us right in the shithouse, Mike? We should have checked that one simple point.’

Korpanski crossed the room in two steps and rested his large hand on Joanna’s shoulder. ‘Not necessarily, Jo,’ he said. ‘We had good reason for believing the girls had left this area safe. The girls’ mothers were initially convinced the text was from Dorothée. Even now we don’t know that that isn’t the case. And think of the hoo hah if we’d spent public money searching for two French girls who were living it up in London. But if this development does mean that something has happened to them on our patch and we do end up in the shit then it’s up to us to dig ourselves out, isn’t it? At least we have a good idea where to start.’ He took two strides across the room. ‘And we already have a chief suspect.’

‘In a possible disappearance, Mike,’ Joanna said slowly. She was dubious. Cases which initially appeared simple and obvious usually proved to be anything but. Barker had appeared creepy – yes – but she couldn’t quite see him as a murderer of two healthy girls. How would he have done it? Why? He didn’t have a criminal record. There had been no complaints against him. He appeared to be a hardworking, capable man running a successful guest house.

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