Her Missing Child by Kerry Watts

Author:Kerry Watts [Watts, Kerry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781786817938
Publisher: Bookouture
Published: 2019-09-25T16:00:00+00:00

Fifty-Five

Jessie swallowed down a couple of paracetamol in the hope of relieving the headache that was beginning to grow.

‘What did you make of that, then?’ Dylan asked, setting a mug of strong coffee down in front of his boss. ‘Strange answer, “I can’t remember”, don’t you think?’ He sipped from his mug and looked between Jessie and Isla, who’d filled them in on her fruitless trip to the garage. She’d also told them she planned to keep looking into the McCabes.

Jessie rubbed at her temples, cursing the pain in her head. She prayed it wouldn’t take the pills long to kick in.

‘What’s your take on all this, Dylan?’ Jessie was curious. ‘What do you make of Claire?’

‘I’ve been thinking about the epilepsy,’ he announced.

‘Yes, and?’ Sometimes her DC would benefit from getting to the point. Maybe that was the headache talking, though.

‘Seizures and blackouts. Memory loss, even. Perhaps she genuinely doesn’t remember and fears she has done something.’

Isla Wilde remembered something a childhood friend once told her, and jumped in with it. ‘When I was a bairn, I had a pal who had a big brother with epilepsy.’

‘Go on,’ Jessie invited.

‘Katie’s brother used to have blackouts. Periods when he just couldn’t remember what he’d done. She said they thought his epilepsy caused it. He had memory loss and a really bad headache after a seizure, too. Temporal lobe epilepsy could explain what’s happened.’

Jessie felt like she was getting a clearer picture of Claire Lucas. She’d lived with epilepsy most of her life, which, if Darren was to be believed, was under control. But that was the key question. Could Darren be believed? Could Claire? Had any of that family been telling the truth? The one thing that can’t lie is physical evidence, which showed Finlay’s death to have been a sad, unpreventable tragedy. But what happened to his body afterwards was very much preventable. Someone removed him from his cot, broke his bones and dumped his body like it was a piece of rubbish. Jessie needed to find out who that person was. Or, indeed, people.

Without enough evidence to hold her, Claire had been bailed pending further investigation. It served no purpose to hold her in a cold police cell. She had no recollection of confessing to Darren, and there was no evidence against her. The young woman might be fit enough to leave hospital, but she was still weak. Jessie wasn’t an ogre. She wasn’t going to keep her there just for the sake of it, no matter how much the sight of Finlay’s broken body distressed her.

‘Wilde, you’re with me. We’re going to have another chat with Bridget Moran. See if she’s ready to shed any light on Theresa’s illness, and whether what Tim McCabe saw has anything to do with what happened to Finlay.’

PC Wilde grabbed her jacket. She wanted to punch the air in victory, delighted that Jessie was taking her and not Dylan this time, but she resisted.

‘Dylan, I’d like you to go back to Father McKinnon.

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