The One Who Fell: A completely gripping mystery and suspense novel (A Whitecliff Bay Mystery Book 1) by Kerry Wilkinson

Author:Kerry Wilkinson [Wilkinson, Kerry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781837900510
Publisher: Bookouture
Published: 2023-04-16T23:00:00+00:00

Millie pressed back into the cracked faux-leather bench and curled her knees under herself.

‘Poor Barry,’ she said.

Guy was across the booth, wriggling to get comfortable as foam spilled from his seat. ‘The way that dog looks at people, he’d have you think he’s never fed. That nobody’s ever shown him any love in his life.’

Millie laughed as she glanced across the diner towards the car park, where Barry was locked in the car with the windows cracked and cheese crumbs to sniff out.

‘He’s made himself a nest,’ Guy added. ‘First time I ever left him in the car, he somehow managed to burrow around the back seat and get into the boot. I found him there curled up with a load of blankets I’d left for emergencies. Don’t let him convince you that he’s got it rough. I was only away for five minutes, paying for petrol.’

Millie settled and listened to the sound of the caff around them. There was the clinking of knives and forks, the vague chatter of talk radio, and plenty of men talking over one another. When she looked back, Guy had slid his Blackberry into the middle of the table. She picked it up; there was a photo of the man who’d arrested her on the screen.

‘It’s the local police website,’ Guy said. ‘That’s the meet the team page.’

And there he was, halfway down, with a grinning head-and-shoulders shot. His ears took up a good third of the frame and he was listed under the name ‘Liam Paris’, with a single R. Millie assumed whoever put the site together had spelled his name wrong. No wonder they’d not been able to find him.

‘That’s him,’ Millie said.

Guy took back his phone and dropped it onto the seat. ‘What are your bail conditions?’ he asked.

‘I’ve got to report back to the station in seven days. They said someone will be in contact if anything changes between now and then.’

Guy screwed his lips together and made a gentle hmm to himself. ‘Do you have a solicitor? I can recommend someone. I wouldn’t be certain that search was legal. There’s all sorts of—’

Millie wasn’t sure she wanted to hear it: ‘There was a duty solicitor – but he didn’t say much at the end. Just that they’re waiting for tests to come back on the crowbar and that I shouldn’t miss bail next week. Maybe I can talk to whoever you know if I get re-arrested…?’

Guy made the same hmm sound to himself once more, not offering the ‘it won’t come to that’ she was hoping to hear.

‘Do you have any idea how the crowbar got into your house?’ he asked.

‘The kitchen window was open, so somebody could have come in through there. You’d have to have gone through the woods to get over the fence and into the house.’ She paused, trying to think. There was definitely something else.

‘Are you OK?’ Guy asked.

Millie needed a moment, trying to remember what she’d read. What she’d heard. ‘Dean works with locks,’ she said.

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