One Half Truth by Eva Dolan

Author:Eva Dolan [Dolan, Eva]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781408886540
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2021-03-30T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR

‘I don’t get it,’ Weller said, as they crossed the A1, heading into open countryside. ‘I get wanting to be a journalist, I suppose – travelling the world, interviewing famous people – but the stuff Jordan was writing about, nobody cares about that.’

‘Some people do,’ Ferreira pointed out. ‘He was getting stories in the paper.’

‘The local paper.’

‘You don’t just rock up at The Times and say, hey, I’m a fucking brilliant reporter give me a job immediately.’ She slowed as she approached the edge of Elton, a moment of dislocation as she remembered she lived in this quiet, stone and thatch, hunkered-down little haven now. ‘You especially don’t get to do that if you’re some kid from Peterborough whose mum works at a supermarket.’

‘Then why didn’t he write about stuff people are actually interested in?’ Weller asked, watching the fields swipe past from behind his sunglasses.

‘Like what? Celebrities and all that shit?’

‘It’s what the people want,’ he said.

‘Rob, the people want to drive drunk and dump old fridges in areas of outstanding natural beauty, do you think we should let them do that?’

He snorted. ‘Bit different, isn’t it?’

‘Not massively, no. If you don’t put the truth in front of people, how will they ever know what’s going on in the world?’ she asked. ‘If all people read is stupid magazines about which soap star has cellulite and what footballer’s bought a pet tiger, you soon get to a point where companies do whatever the hell they want and governments lie to the electorate and before you know it you’ve got –’

‘Brexit?’ He grinned.

‘A compromised democracy.’

She was already regretting bringing him. This was the first time she’d taken him out on a case, the first time she’d heard him offer any opinion at length, and he was making her feel very old and very serious and she didn’t appreciate that one little bit.

Should have brought Murray, she thought. If nothing else the drive would have given her an opportunity to get the lowdown on Colleen’s new bloke. She’d been infuriatingly discreet about him so far. All Ferreira knew was that a friend had set them up on a blind date and that he was a retired geography teacher. ‘Not an old bugger, though,’ Colleen had said. ‘He took early retirement. He’s still got plenty of go in him.’

If Colleen kept shtum much longer Ferreira was going to resort to the nuclear option and invite her and the ex-teacher around for dinner. She didn’t want to be the kind of person who held dinner parties but if that was what it took …

Weller was going again. ‘I just don’t get why anyone would want to spend their whole life writing about depressing crap.’

‘Maybe he felt a sense of duty to the public.’ Ferreira sped up as the road began to rise, following the rolling swells of the Leicestershire wolds. ‘Getting to truths people don’t want revealing. It’s kind of the same as what we do except the crimes aren’t as obvious as the ones we deal with.

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