THE GEORDIE MURDER an addictive crime mystery full of twists (Eric Ward Mystery Book 5) by ROY LEWIS

Author:ROY LEWIS [LEWIS, ROY]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Joffe Books crime mystery and thriller
Published: 2019-10-13T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 4

‘So what on earth happened?’

The early gold of the morning sky had given way to a warm flush spreading above the hills to the west. The sunlight tipped the ridge, bringing it to green life while the hollows of the valley below remained purple, the colour fading reluctantly against the invasion of the morning. Unshaven, haggard from the long night, Eric sipped the welcoming coffee and gazed about him while Anne waited in her dressing-gown for a reply.

When the sun glinted on the river across the meadows Eric finished his coffee, turned and managed a smile. ‘I’m sorry. I need to wind down for a few minutes. You got the phone call?’

‘Only to say you were at police headquarters at Morpeth. It wasn’t very explicit. I assumed at first you were there with a client.’

‘Not quite like that, I’m afraid.’ Eric stretched, and looked at his watch. ‘I can’t say it wasn’t an eye-opening experience, being on the other side of the fence, so to speak. I’ve done enough interrogating in my time, and I’ve seen enough villains in the police cells. It’s an odd experience, being taken for one.’

‘So what happened?’

Eric held out a hand to take hers. She looked very young this morning; there was a defencelessness about her that brought an ache to his throat. It was odd how it could strike him on occasions, when he’d been so reluctant to marry her, the thought that without her now he would be lost. Perhaps that was why he had avoided the commitment, because it would make him vulnerable. Yet now it was she who was looking vulnerable.

‘Jackie Parton got information from a young girl called Davinia. She was able to identify one of the men who had kidnapped Kate Cullen. His name was Eddie Lister. It took Jackie two days to trace Lister: he found him at a Newcastle address, got in touch with me, and then followed Llster when he left home and drove to the West End, and then Gateshead.’

‘Where was he going, or why?’

Eric shook his head. ‘That’s a question the police got around to asking us, but we’ve no answers. You see, it’s fairly clear he was going to the flats above the staiths to meet someone but we don’t know who.’ Eric paused. ‘I’ve got a feeling Jackie knows something else which he hasn’t even told me, something about who Lister was due to meet, but I’m not sure. Anyway, he came to pick me up, we drove back to the staiths, and then waited for Lister to return to his car. There was no way we could know which building he’d entered. Then the police came.’

Anne walked across to the terrace wall and stood with her back to it. The red-gold tints in her hair were highlighted in the soft morning sun. ‘The police just happened to come along?’

‘No, that couldn’t be it. A patrol car, obviously, responding to a call, I would guess. Maybe somebody in the flats had heard a struggle and called it in.

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