Trauma by Ken McClure

Author:Ken McClure
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: thriller, medical, research, bestselling, scottish author
Publisher: Ken McClure

Lafferty spent the morning in the church praying for the recovery of Mary O'Donnell but also for strength to bring comfort to her grieving parents should it be necessary. After his conversation with Sarah Lasseter in the early hours of the morning he suspected that the latter would be more relevant. He wondered how Jean would take it. She’d always had an unshakable faith. Please God it would survive the death of her daughter.

Joseph O'Donnell would be bitter and, when mixed with the guilt he was feeling, it might prove a heady cocktail to handle. Joe needed someone or something to blame. He and Mary had been at loggerheads for weeks over her boyfriend and the hours she kept. Joe clearly loved his daughter but the fact that he would never be able to tell her this and that she had died with so much bad feeling between them would be hard for him to bear. He would feel resentful and betrayed.

Lafferty phoned to ask if there was any news. Joe O'Donnell answered.

'Still the same,' he said.

'No sign of improvement?'

'They're doing tests this morning.'

'I'll call back later, Joe.'

'Father?'

'Yes?'

'About the fight Mary and I had last week - the mark on her head - I didn't mean her no harm. I mean . . . I love her really.'

'I know that, Joe. Don't worry about it. I'll speak to you later.'

Lafferty was sitting thinking about Joe when the phone rang. It was John Main and he sounded revitalised.

'I thought you'd like to know, I found them, Ryan. I found them last night.'

Lafferty had to think for a moment before he realised what Main meant. 'You mean, the people who took Simon?' he exclaimed.

'Yes. I found them, all four of them.'

'How in God's name did you do it?' asked Lafferty.

Main explained the thinking behind his pub crawl and what had happened when he had put the theory into practice. 'They were in the very last one I visited. I've just been down at police headquarters with their descriptions.'

'Descriptions?' asked Lafferty.

Main told him about the fight in the pub and how he'd nearly lost his sight.

Lafferty frowned and asked, 'Are your eyes all right?'

'Still a bit sore but I can see,' said Main. 'I'll survive.'

'So who are these people?' asked Lafferty. 'Did the police have any idea?'

'I had a look through their mug shot books but I didn't recognise anyone. They seemed like plain, ordinary yobs to me,' said Main. 'But the police are confident they'll find them now they know where to look.'

There was that word again, thought Lafferty. 'Yobs'.

'How can you be sure these are the men?' he asked.

'They didn't deny it,' answered Main.

'You mean they admitted taking Simon's body?' exclaimed Lafferty.

'They didn't go that far,' said Main. 'They tried to suggest I'd got it all wrong but they knew McKirrop, all right and they admitted being there in the cemetery that night.'

'Thank God. I'm afraid I've been getting nowhere at the library. I hope the police pick these men up soon; this has all been a nightmare for you.

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