Robertson, Craig - In Place of Death by Robertson Craig

Author:Robertson, Craig [Robertson, Craig]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781471127809
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Published: 2015-09-09T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 29

Winter slipped the phone back in his pocket with a heavy conscience and stared up at the tenement flat opposite him. At least he hadn’t lied, not quite.

Cordiner Street in Mount Florida was just a corner kick from the national football stadium, Hampden Park. It was a mix of sandstone tenements and neat newer bungalows. Number 13 was a tenement, two doors along from a nail bar.

It had never seemed right to Winter that Euan Hepburn would be homeless yet that was what he’d been presented with. Homeless and living in a hostel with drunks and addicts. Instead he’d been living here on the South Side for at least six months. It had been easy to track an address; no need to have asked Rachel and much less troublesome not to. But it was easy enough for him to have done it while Euan was alive.

There were eight surnames listed on the ground floor of the tenement and Hepburn was on the top floor of four. Winter pressed the intercom against the name just in case the sister had been contacted and had come to sort through his belongings. There was no answer. The name for the flat opposite was Nicol. That would do.

He pressed a couple of the other intercoms and, after a few moments, a man’s voice answered from the second floor. ‘Hello?’

‘I’ve got a parcel for Nicol. Could you let me in?’

There was a hesitation then a sigh. It wasn’t his problem. Why not?

The door buzzed and Winter pushed against it. He climbed the stairs quickly but quietly, turning his face away from 13e and hoping the neighbour wasn’t paying him any attention.

If Euan had been found dead in his flat then the place would have been secured by the police and there would have been next to no chance of Winter getting inside the building, never mind the flat. That wasn’t the case though and he was betting – hoping – that there had been no reason for them to think that someone would try to break in.

Of course the cops would have been through everything in the hope of finding out who had killed him but Winter had a better idea than they did of what to look for. Even if he didn’t have much idea of where to look for it.

They would have taken his PC or laptop away and would be going through his hard drive if they hadn’t already. He’d no idea what they’d find on there but he was aware that he was hoping it wouldn’t be much. For all that he wanted Euan’s killer to be caught, he wanted to do this.

Once he was on the top landing, he took out both a thin piece of plastic and the knowledge that his Uncle Danny had given him. In less than a minute, he was inside.

He closed the door behind him and stood in the near darkness for fully five minutes, waiting to hear if he’d drawn attention on the way in.

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