The Hanged Woman by Mark Richards

Author:Mark Richards [Richards, Mark & Richards, E S]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-01-23T00:00:00+00:00

48

“Thoughts?”

Brady pulled the Tiguan out of the Old Carriage Works. Turned left and pointed it back towards Whitby. Quickly sped up to sixty as a beat-up old Vauxhall Corsa raced toward him in the rear-view mirror.

“I would say we have our first suspect boss.”

“You think he could have done it?”

“I think he would’ve needed help. He was well built, but not quite well built enough to haul a 70kg dead weight up a tree.”

“So we’re back to two people then. Do you think he had a motive?”

“Nothing that springs to mind immediately. That’s if you buy his story though. It’ll be interesting to see if we get a match on his fingerprints. If he was inside the house then we might be the ones making him coffee next time. Not that he’ll approve of what we have in the station.”

“A far cry from five grand La Marzocco.”

Brady indicated left and made his way onto the A64 slip road. The Corsa immediately zoomed past him.

“You know, there are times when I wish I had lights in the car, Frankie. Stick a siren on and give a kid like that the fright of his life.”

“Wishing yourself back into uniform boss? Most coppers work the other way around.”

“I know. But there’ll be a lorry trying to overtake another lorry in a few miles time. He’ll get stuck behind that just the same as us. Makes you wonder what the point is…

“But back to Sarah Trueman. Let me talk to you, Frankie. Try and sound it out. I’m Carrick. I know Sarah from somewhere in my past – a business deal gone wrong, an affair – we definitely can’t rule that out based on what Julie Stott said about him. The mental images I had to put aside during that meeting. You’re lucky she didn’t want to talk to another woman.”

Brady shuddered again. Indicated to get round a middle lane driver.

“The point is he knows her. Setting up a tarot reading is a guaranteed way for her to let me in. I park by the village shop. Walk up the path to her house. She doesn’t know who to expect. Arranging the readings via letter – she can’t have got much business that way? Relying solely on word of mouth. It seems strange. Risky. But either way, she doesn’t know who she’s meeting. So maybe when she opens the door, she’s surprised, she’s taken off guard.”

“What about the cat bowls boss? The vicar said he didn’t put them down. I’m not sure Carrick would have done that afterwards.”

“No. You’re right. So perhaps Carrick didn’t go into the house after all. Perhaps he lured her out?”

“That still doesn’t work boss. Why would she put the cat bowls down before she’d arranged a reading? Doesn’t give off the best impression does it? Hello, welcome to my cottage. Step over the bowls of cat food and I’ll tell you your future.”

“So what are we saying?”

“She left the house intentionally boss. She knew she was leaving for a long time.

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