Shattered Bones by Kate Bendelow

Author:Kate Bendelow [Bendelow, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloodhound Books

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The office was filled with the mouth-watering aroma of fish and chips. Maya and Chris had been working a day shift together. They’d been at the rota garage examining stolen cars. Although they’d been sheltered from the sheet of rain, the garage had been freezing. The wind had pulled angrily at the metal roller-shutter doors, the sound alone making them shiver. It was easily a couple of degrees colder in there than it had been outside.

Chris had suggested a chippy lunch as a treat to warm themselves back up. He looked perplexed as he took a sip of tea whilst Maya told him about the man she’d met at church.

‘Did anything about him seem odd when you were talking to him?’ he asked.

‘No. He seemed nice.’

Chris rubbed his stubble. ‘You must have mentioned Dominique’s name,’ he said eventually.

Maya shook her head determinedly. ‘I didn’t. I know I didn’t.’

Chris belched noisily as he gathered up the chip paper. ‘Look, work has been really busy lately and you’ve had the added stress of Naylor being released. I think you’re either misremembering the conversation or it could be paranoia, which is perfectly understandable. No offence, love, but you do look tired.’

Maya slapped a hand on the desk. ‘That’s because I’ve hardly slept with going over it. I appreciate what you’re saying, but I know I didn’t say her name.’

‘Did someone else maybe? Did he overhear one of the others asking how she was?’

Maya thought about it, but before she had a chance to answer, Kym came bustling in carrying a large golf umbrella and her messenger bag, which as ever was bursting at the seams. She paused in the doorway, her nose twitching.

‘It stinks in here.’

‘Chippy,’ said Chris succinctly.

Her eyes narrowed. ‘I know what it is, I’m saying I don’t like it. This is a place of work, not a bloody builder’s café. Can you go and see if there’s any air freshener in the cleaning cupboard, please?’

‘What’s up with her?’ Chris mouthed to Maya as Kym stalked towards her office.

‘I dunno. Shall I go and check?’

‘Make her a brew first. And take her a biscuit for Christ’s sake. In fact, take her the bloody packet, it might help ward off her evil scorn.’

Armed with custard creams and a cup of tea, Maya hovered uncertainly at Kym’s door.

‘Oh, you’re a star, Maya. Thank you.’ Kym removed her reading glasses and gave Maya a listless smile as she placed the cup down.

‘Everything okay?’

Kym sighed and gestured towards the chair for Maya to sit down. ‘I’m just bloody frustrated. I’ve been up to top office for a strategy meeting with DI Redford about Rose Dawlish’s death.’

‘And?’

‘I’ve recommended a number of swabs from the body and scene be submitted but the Case Management Unit are holding them back for the time being. I’m particularly keen for the swabs from the fingermarks on the top of her arm to go off as a matter of urgency.’

‘Why?’ asked Maya incredulously.

‘Because it looks like they were a fresh injury and could well have been made by the offender.

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