THESE LITTLE LIES An addictive crime thriller with a twist you won't see coming by GRETTA MULROONEY

Author:GRETTA MULROONEY [MULROONEY, GRETTA]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Joffe Books crime thriller and mystery
Published: 2019-11-04T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

Polska was a mixture of social and welfare centre run by older women, most of them volunteers. Siv reckoned that if every volunteer decided to stay at home, the social fabric of the country would begin to fall apart. She sat with Bartel Nowak in the bar at noon, drinking tea. He was downing a foaming pint of beer and making his way through a plate of pierogi. He was bald, with a long, reddish pointed beard and wore three earrings in each ear. He looked more like a biker than a roofer, rough at the edges and pugnacious, but on meeting her had kissed her hand and called her madame. That was a first for a police officer.

‘Did you know Lauren Visser and Matis Rimas?’ She showed him the photos.

‘I met Mat at the river and we had a drink in here sometimes.’

‘You didn’t think to contact the police when you heard Lauren and Matis Rimas been murdered there?’

‘I didn’t know they were dead until you told me. I’ve been working in Pevensey the last two weeks and staying there with a mate. Long days and I don’t watch much news. All too depressing. After work I have dinner, a beer and go to bed.’ He wiped froth from his lips and burped lightly.

‘You were in Pevensey on Monday morning?’

‘That’s right. I’m happy to give you a contact number for the friend I stayed with. I understand you’ll want to check up on me.’

‘Yes, I will. Let’s start with Matis. When did you meet him?’

‘Around November last. He was fishing, so was I. We chatted a bit. Very sad, what’s happened to him. He was a nice guy, straightforward. He was there at the river a couple of other times. We’d watch out for each other in case this old guy we called “Grandad” was around.’

‘Because you were trespassing on private land.’

‘Just catching fish, Madame. Not doing anyone any harm. No great crime.’ He looked at her mischievously. ‘Mat and I exchanged emails and met in here a couple of times for a beer. He was kind of naïve, always going on about extra-terrestrial life.’

‘Did he ever say he was in any kind of trouble?’

He wolfed down his last pierogi and patted his beard delicately with a napkin. ‘Nope. He’d moved in with some Lithuanian family and he was happy about that. He seemed fine the last time I saw him, around mid-February. He emailed me to tell me that this woman, Lauren, was complaining about the notice at the river and crowdfunding about it. He knew I was angry about the notice.’

‘How did Matis know about Lauren?’

‘He spotted her poster on the wall here and emailed me a photo of it. I texted her to say if she wanted any support, I’d be happy to give it but I didn’t want to go public. I contributed to the crowdfunding.’

‘Did you meet her?’

‘No. She just texted me back, gave me a few updates on how the campaign was going.

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