Rest Assured by J.M. Gregson

Author:J.M. Gregson [J.M. Gregson]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Severn House Publishers
Published: 2014-01-02T16:00:00+00:00

TWELVE

Lambert was back in time to see his daughter and his grandchildren, to exchange views with his son-in-law over the successes of the England cricket team against Australia and to indulge in the various joys of the extended family.

Yet through all of this there was a portion of John Lambert which was not present in this happy gathering, however much he wanted it to be there. Murder investigations and the people you met in the course of them had that effect on domestic life, however much you willed that it should not be so. He could not thrust from his mind the disquieting image of the menacing, almost silent Richard Seagrave and his bright and intelligent blonde partner, Vanessa Norton. His grandsons were only seven and five, but even amidst their innocent cacophony, the cadences of the earlier interview at Twin Lakes refused to leave him.

It had been routine stuff, on the surface. They had given their account of Friday night and it had been officially noted. It might be that everything they had said about those hours was entirely true. Yet he had a feeling about the exchanges that he could not dismiss. Bert Hook and he had been bested by the cool, intelligent Vanessa Norton and the watchful man who had sat beside her. The interview had been conducted on their terms, not on his. La Norton had told them exactly what she had planned in advance to tell them, whilst Richard Seagrave had contentedly overseen the process.

John Lambert would have instructed Hook and the rest of his team to assemble facts before they formed opinions. Yet, with precious few facts as yet, he was already sure in his own mind that Seagrave and Norton were a dangerous couple who had won the first round of the contest.

He arrived at Twin Lakes early on Monday morning. Jim Rawlinson had allotted them one of the unused units near the entrance as a murder room. The place was rapidly filling with materials gathered and bagged around the scene of the crime, together with pictures of the deceased and of various other objects and scenes which might have significance. DI Rushton was completing his filing of interviews conducted with everyone who had been on the site at the time of the crime. Many of them had been with not one but several people on Friday night, so that their alibis were much more convincing than those supported by just a spouse or partner. It was too early to be certain, but it seemed likely that Lambert and Hook had already conducted preliminary interviews with the people closest to this crime.

By ten thirty, they had the post-mortem report. Lambert called Chris Rushton and Bert Hook into his office to review the findings. As they had feared, these added little to what they already knew. Walter Keane had been hit fiercely on the back of his head with an object which had so far not been located. There were no traces of wood in the wound.

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