Murder on Pay Day by David Pearson

Author:David Pearson [Pearson, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Book Folks best-selling Irish murder mystery crime fiction publisher
Published: 2018-10-11T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

The following morning, Sinéad drove Lyons back to the hospital where she had left her car overnight. Sinéad didn’t go in, but Lyons did, just to see Hays for a minute to make sure that he was OK and had spent a comfortable night.

She looked in through the little window of room 212A. Mick was sitting up in the bed finishing his breakfast. Lyons went in.

“Hi, you’re looking a bit perkier,” she said to Hays as he smiled warmly at her.

“Hi you. Thanks for coming in. Are you on your way to work?”

“Yeah. Sinéad was here last night just as I was leaving, so she drove me home and we had some grub. She stayed over,” Lyons said.

“Oh, I didn’t see her. Tell her thanks for coming in.”

“She said she might stop by later. So, what have they got lined up for you today?” Lyons said.

“Well, as soon as the physio gets here, they’re going to get me up and see if I can walk around a bit.”

“Nice. I hope it’s not too sore,” she said holding his hand.

“Nah, it’ll be fine. Now why don’t you get off to work and don’t worry about me. See if you can nail those bastards before I get out of here.”

“Yeah, OK, I’ll stop by later. Do you need anything?” Lyons said.

“No, I’m fine thanks. See you later.” They kissed briefly before she left.

* * *

Lyons got into the station just before nine. She got a cup of coffee from the kitchen, and took it into the open plan where the rest of the team were already assembled.

As she stood at the whiteboard that had pictures of Paddy McKeever and the Geraghty brothers pinned up, she was conscious that everyone was looking to her to provide some inspiration about the case. For the first time in a long time, she actually felt nervous.

“Right,” Lyons said, clearing her throat, “what have we got? Eamon?”

Eamon Flynn shifted nervously in his seat.

“Nothing, boss. I thought you might have something,” he said rather sheepishly.

“Sally, have you anything? Anything at all?” Lyons said.

“Sorry, Inspector. They’ve been searching all over the place out near the cottage, but there’s no sign of them. Not a trace,” she said.

Lyons swallowed hard before she spoke.

“Right. This is what we’re going to do. I want the search team out there increased. I want every single house in the area checked, and then re-checked. Eamon, will you get onto Séan Mulholland and get him to put every available man he can spare on it? Tell him overtime is no problem, and tell him leave is cancelled till we find these two – except for Christmas Day and St Stephen’s Day that is.”

Lyons judged the mood amongst her colleagues before pressing on.

“And I want all of you to give your snouts a good rattle. There will be some word on the grapevine as to what’s going on, and a lot of the lowlife we deal with don’t go along with shooting Gardaí, so it may be possible to get some information there.

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