Headland by Ged Gillmore

Author:Ged Gillmore
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: australia fiction, australian crime novels, amateur sleuth, murder mystery series, intelligent crime fiction, small town crime, missing girl mystery, detective mystery series, noir, hard boiled
Publisher: deGrevilo Publishing
Published: 2020-02-24T00:00:00+00:00

They stumbled through the dark streets, the bicycle wobbling between them. It was a different route from the one he and Davie had taken.

‘You really don’t have to walk me home, Bill. I can look after myself.’

‘Yeah, well, I can look after myself too and look what happened to me. Some gorilla came at me with a bicycle chain.’

She turned towards him, her feet slowing. It was too dark to see her face properly, but he knew she was going to ask another bloody question. ‘Who do you reckon that was? It’s so weird – I can’t believe it happened in Montie. It’s not like we’re some outback place not used to strangers.’

‘Beats me.’

She laughed at this until he did too. Then she pointed out a squat blue house and asked him if he knew who lived there.

‘No idea. Oh yeah! Alycia Thornton. Jesus, I didn’t know we’d come this far up. This isn’t the way Davie and me came to your house before.’

‘Shortcut.’

He shook his head. ‘This town. It’s tiny but it’s like a maze.’ Then, after a while, as they were walking on again, ‘What do you reckon to Alycia, then?’

‘Nothing much. Maybe not as good a friend of Georgie’s as she likes to pretend, but she’s harmless enough. She puts on this big confident actress act but, underneath it all, I reckon she’s just as confused and needy as all girls at that age.’

‘Needy?’

‘Yeah, very. She just wants everyone to like her. Why?’

‘Nothing.’

‘Bill!’

‘No, really, nothing. I just didn’t think she seemed needy, that’s all. She seemed more like, you know, full of herself. Enjoying the drama of it all, flirting.’

‘Maybe she fancied you?’

A flight of steps appeared in the verge beside them and they carried the bike down, passing through a pool of yellow lamplight before emerging onto the street he recognised as hers. Murdoch looked back the way they’d come.

‘How can a shortcut have taken us to a street higher than where you live?’

‘I don’t know.’ Even in the dark he could see she was unsure about what she was going to say next. ‘Maybe I was enjoying the walk.’

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