Heated Beat 02 - Lucky Man by Garrett Leigh

Author:Garrett Leigh
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2015-02-21T00:00:00+00:00

DC JEN Lanes circled the small cordoned off area for a second time, then came to a stop by Danny and looked up the embankment. “No sign of a body being dragged.”

Danny looked up from his position crouched on the ground, checking his notes against the forensic crew’s assessment. “Yep. Looks like she died right here. Question is… how?”

“You think?” Lanes shot him a withering glare, and Danny answered with a wry grin. A crime scene was no place for glib jokes, but a little dark humor was always welcome in the middle of a long day. “How much did she weigh?”

“A little over eight stone.”

Lanes whistled. “Not much, then. So she could’ve been carried here?”

“From the road?” Danny glanced over his shoulder at the busy dual carriageway. “Not without being seen, even at night. This is the main lorry route through Nottingham.”

Lanes didn’t look convinced, and that was what Danny liked about her. “A lorry could stop here for a few minutes and dump a body.”

“Or there’s a parking stop a mile north. She could’ve walked here…”

“…with whoever killed her,” Lanes finished.

“We don’t know anyone killed her yet,” Danny said, but though the investigation hadn’t produced any tangible evidence, instinct and plain old common sense told Danny there was no other reason for two vulnerable women to turn up dead in ditches, especially within a week of each other.

On cue his phone rang. The number for the pathologist’s office flashed up on the screen. Danny beckoned Lanes closer while he listened to the updated report from the first body. When the pathologist was done, Danny thanked him and hung up. Then he clambered out of the ditch with Lanes hot on his heels and surveyed the busy road.

“Dead girl number one was asphyxiated. They’re looking again at number two. Let’s go back to your lorry-driver theory. If she was smothered too, we’ll need all the hypotheses we can get.”

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