The Unburied Bones by Levi Fuller

Author:Levi Fuller [Fuller, Levi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blue Scallop Digital LLC
Published: 2020-09-17T22:00:00+00:00

7

Oliver pulled his little red Aygo into a parking spot and took a steadying breath before stepping from the car and into the rain. Claire took a moment too, then pulled her raincoat’s hood over her head and got out of the car.

Every available officer of Bute’s small police department was here, manning the cordon and trying to keep order. From the lack of panic int the gawking residents, Claire surmised that the victim’s identity hadn’t yet been made public.

Once it is though, this whole island will be thrown into chaos, because it will take old remains, old murders and make them current. Make the past threat a current one.

“Juno!”

She moved over to Ben, where he sat hulking in his khaki raincoat.

“What’s our first step?” she asked by way of greeting.

“Them.”

She followed his pointing finger to a small group of rattled looking tourists, huddling under a huge beach umbrella. Their shirts bore an emblem she knew well enough. Environmental activists.

“They were cleaning up the beach?” she asked as they made their way to the area where the group had been sequestered.

“Yeah. They saw the bags bobbing in the surf and went to pull them out, but one snagged on some hidden rocks and well.”

She tried to get a good look at his face, even though the rain. It was as tight and hard as his voice, promising swift and perhaps brutal justice to whoever had done this.

“Did anything get lost to the sea?”

“I’m not sure. Though I suspect Oliver will be a better judge of that than anyone else.”

She looked a little further down the beach where a blue tent had been erected, shielding the remains from the weather and rubberneckers alike. As Oliver’s lurid pink raincoat passed through the flap she caught a glimpse of Katie Mills kneeling beside some bin bags.

“Thank you all for waiting,” Ben said as they approached the huddled group. Ten pairs of eyes turned to look at him. “I am Detective Ben Courtney, this is my partner, Detective Claire Juno.”

“I am Mary de Klerk, team leader.”

“If you are ready, we have some questions to ask you. With your permission, we will record your answers.”

Mary nodded. “That’s fine.”

“Thank you,” Ben said, clicking on his recorder and handing it over to Claire. Claire bit her tongue. Here, unlike in Miami, he was the lead detective, not her.

“What were you and your group doing on the beach this morning?”

“Gathering trash.”

“What time did you and your party begin?”

“Around five am., over in Kilchattan Bay. We got here to Port Bannatyne at about seven. Saw the bags around seven-fifteen.”

“Which of you spotted them first?”

“I did,” a man at the back raised his hand, the fingers still shaking.

“Your name, please.”

“Chris Leewan.”

“What did you do next, Mr. Leewan?”

“I sent my partner,” he began.

“We always work in pairs,” Mary added. “Crystal Holland was his partner for the day.”

They took note of the elderly woman who nodded in response to her name.

Chris took up his thread again. “So yeah, I sent her to alert Mary.

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