Honour and Fate: A Gripping Detective Mystery (The DI Hogarth Honour and Obey series Book 3) by Solomon Carter

Author:Solomon Carter [Carter, Solomon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Great Leap
Published: 2024-03-08T00:00:00+00:00

Eleven

Palmer and Kaplan worked on. Despite Hogarth’s instructions, Palmer didn’t see the value of returning to the hotel to interview anyone until she had a steer on the so-called professional killer. With two incidents to work with and a mystery woman who appeared to have profited from Bosh Horville’s near-death experience, she wasn’t in the mood to waste precious time on shoe leather until it was necessary. So, she split the footage duty with Kaplan. Palmer sat on one side of the office sipping coffee as she tried to balance the urge to speed-scroll through the video with the need not to miss anything. Palmer was not forensically minded, but she had far more discipline than Hogarth. So, she scrolled and clicked and double-checked the corridor footage as dutifully as she could. She caught the odd hint of Gretchen and Lunic together, paying a visit to Lunic’s room. The visits seemed short and functional. But the men seemed friendly, even if, at times, Gretchen seemed on the verge of an emotional breakdown.

Palmer puffed her cheeks and leaned back in her seat. Time had passed achingly slowly since she started, and if Hogarth was making good progress out on the road, she needed something to show for her time. She dragged a hand down her face and glanced at the clock, wondering whether Hogarth had got what he’d been after. Turning towards Kaplan, she decided it was time to head for the hotel to see if she could dig up something for the investigation.

“Okay,” she said, sighing. “I suppose I’d better put PC Jensen to use, seeing as he’s been dumped in our laps.”

Kaplan raised a sharp hand before she spoke. “Wait a second!”

She didn’t look around. Her eyes were locked to the screen. Palmer frowned and closed in behind Kaplan. She watched as Kaplan flipped between two windows on her laptop. The first showed what appeared to be Admir Lunic stepping into a lift. It was late at night, 12:40 am according to the CCTV time stamp. Lunic was dressed in a muscle-revealing vest and jogging bottoms. Kaplan flipped to the next screen. It was the same timeframe when a pair of feet could be seen running up the stairs in the outer hall close to the lift doors.

“I have to see who that is… he’s heading up the stairs at the same time as Lunic.”

“Approaching one am? Could have been a busy time,” said Palmer, almost dismissively.

“No, it wasn’t busy. And I didn’t see that guy pass the reception cameras.”

Kaplan opened another set of CCTV images and scrolled directly to the closest matching time. The new footage showed a set of grey In-Post parcel lockers set on one wall, with the hotel’s rear exit doors visible. The doors overlooked the hotel car park and Palmer saw rows parked cars lined up. There was a man in the middle of the screen, frozen because Kaplan had paused the video. It was 12.39 am. The man was looking at the floor, and the crown of his head, covered in a dark hat, was captured by the camera.

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