In Deep Water by Sam Blake

Author:Sam Blake [Blake, Sam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery
ISBN: 9781785760549
Publisher: Calibre
Published: 2017-04-06T00:00:00+00:00

25

‘This it?’ Cathy’s heart was thumping as 007 pulled the DDU car up outside a low-rise apartment block. She had literally just left the gym and hit the M50 when O’Rourke had called to say they might have a breakthrough. She’d headed straight to Dún Laoghaire, collected her firearm and dashed out to Fanning who was already waiting for her, the Vectra’s engine running.

A call had come in from Ballymun Garda Station about a missing girl. A missing girl who was about the same age and height as their Jane Doe. Who lived in Ballymun. What were the chances of it being unconnected to Sarah Jane’s disappearance? As she had listened to O’Rourke on speakerphone, Cathy’s mouth had gone dry.

As Fanning had pulled out of the station car park, she’d got straight on the phone, willing McIntyre to pick up. He had the gym phone on divert to his mobile, and thankfully it hadn’t rung for long. ‘I need the low down on the O’Connors . . .’

Fanning turned off the engine and the unmarked Vectra’s headlights, checking Google Maps on his phone. He took a look out of the window. ‘Looks like it, and the lights are on. What did that coach of yours say about the family?’

‘Well respected, keep out of trouble. Eithne O’Connor runs that flower stall at the top of Grafton Street. The missing girl is her granddaughter, her brother reported it.’

‘Parents?’

‘Boy said their mother was dead, overdose. Grandmother brought them up.’

*

It took a few minutes for Eithne O’Connor to open the front door, a few minutes in which Fanning had paced across the landing to the huge floor-to-ceiling window on the fourth floor and had a good look up and down the road, a few minutes in which Cathy had felt her heart beat so hard she could hear it.

As the glossed council blue door opened an inch, the rattling safety chain restricting its movement, Cathy could see the face of an attractive older woman, heavily made up, her bleached hair swept back in a complicated up-do, her fringe heavy. She looked like a sixties film star.

‘Eithne O’Connor?’ Cathy tried to keep her voice level, unemotional.

‘Who’s asking?’

‘Gardaí,’ Cathy flipped open her warrant card. ‘We had a call from your grandson Jazz, he’s very concerned about his sister Daniella.’

‘He’s not here.’

‘Perhaps we could talk to you? We believe Daniella may have been missing for a few days?’

‘She’s not here but that doesn’t mean she’s missing.’

‘Could we come in, perhaps? We’d like to chat to yourself and to Jazz.’

Eithne O’Connor didn’t move, ‘Like I said, he’s not here.’

‘Would you be able to call him? Or perhaps I could?’

Eithne O’Connor unhooked the chain and opened the door, ‘Reported Daniella missing, did he? Well he would have been the last to see her. She’s strong willed, that one, like her mother. Hardly ever here.’ She shook her head, ‘She works in that swanky restaurant, The Rookery. Reckons she’ll get a job in TV or modelling if she plays her cards right. They all do, the girls who work there.

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