Murder Untimely by Anita Waller

Author:Anita Waller [Waller, Anita]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloodhound Books

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‘Hi, Simon. Good to see you again.’ Kat smiled at the tall good-looking man in front of her. It had been over five years since she had last seen him, and he hadn’t changed at all.

‘Kat. Please come in.’ He stepped back and waited for her to pass by him before shutting the door. ‘Straight on, it’s warmer in the kitchen.’

The kitchen was toasty warm, and the air was redolent with something delicious cooking in the oven.

‘That smells good,’ she said.

‘A simple stew. I’m not one for fancy food, never have been.’

He pulled out a chair from under the table, and Kat sat down. ‘First of all, Simon, I’m so sorry for your loss. Death can be extra hard on people when it’s a sibling.’

‘Thank you. I’m not sure I’ve accepted it yet. Debbie has taken it so much better than me, but Debbie had written Nicola out of her life anyway, I fear.’

‘And you hadn’t?’

He hesitated. ‘This conversation is between us?’

‘It’s between you and Connection. It won’t go back to Debbie.’

He nodded. ‘Thank you. I saw Nicola fairly frequently. I’m not saying we were best friends or anything like that, but she was an unhappy woman. I tried to be there for her. I could see both sides, Kat, with her and Adam. Oh, I saw his bruises and cuts – we were friends, and he made this house his port in a storm, but I knew it was something inside Nicola that she couldn’t control. As a child I suffered at her hands, as did Debbie, but nobody seemed able to do anything about it.’

‘So Debbie doesn’t know you were in regular contact.’

‘No. It’s better it stays that way. It’s irrelevant anyway now, isn’t it.’

Kat could see the sadness in his face. ‘Can we talk about Adam leaving?’

‘Or otherwise?’

The room went silent. ‘You think it’s possible there’s an otherwise?’ Kat said.

‘Kat, I’ve tried to explain how violent Nicola was. I honestly don’t know what she was capable of. I can’t believe she would kill Danny, not her child, but she came pretty close with Adam more than once. If Adam left through his own volition, I would have expected to hear from him at some point over the last ten years. I haven’t. We were very close, more like brothers than brothers-in-law.’

‘Debbie thinks he’s still alive.’

‘Debbie loved him. She’ll never accept he’s dead unless we find a body. She lives for the day when he’ll walk through her door.’

‘What did you think when he disappeared?’

There was no hesitation. ‘I thought my sister had committed murder. She’d pushed Danny down the stairs two days earlier, and only another couple before that when she’d beaten Adam with the baseball bat. He didn’t just let her do that, by the way, she knocked him out first. When he came to, he was in dreadful pain, but refused to send for the police. He and Danny turned up here, and I tried to help, but I knew he would take time.

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