Travis - 05 - Silent Scream by Lynda La Plante

Author:Lynda La Plante [Plante, Lynda La]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery, Thriller
ISBN: 9781847375469
Amazon: 1847375464
Goodreads: 6913407
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Published: 2009-09-02T14:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

At last Anna had all the cuttings in order and placed in long lines along her desk. Ten months, she calculated, had elapsed between Amanda’s stint at the Drury Clinic and beginning filming again. She must have been pregnant and had an abortion at some point during this time. Both Colin O’Dell and Scott Myers denied they were responsible for her pregnancy, but they both admitted visiting her at the clinic. Then she became a patient of Dr Eamon Suchet, by which time she was anorexic, self-harming and, according to him, very fragile. Yet, shortly afterwards, Amanda returned to a highly lucrative film career.

Next, Anna checked through Amanda’s passport, working backwards. There were stamps for two trips to Los Angeles, another to New York in the past two years. She came across a receipt from a jeweller in the South of France and a boarding-pass stub for a flight there three months earlier, tucked in the back of the passport. One of those trips coincided with the time Anna reckoned Amanda had been pregnant. Mr Delany had admitted that he knew about it; it was his wife who had booked his daughter into the Drury. Had Amanda gone to her parents for help? She did have considerable earnings by then, but nowhere near what she was bringing in more recently. Around this time, someone had arranged an abortion for her, and from what Anna knew it had been a terrible, botched job that had left the girl very ill and unable to have children. It was vital, Anna knew now, that she re-question Jeannie and Felicity who shared her flat throughout those years.

Neither Mike Lewis nor Barolli had returned to the station, so Anna decided to visit Jeannie and Felicity without a search warrant. She asked Barbara to put on her duty status that she had come up with some important queries she needed ironing out. She also asked if they had the address of the hotel in London where Mr and Mrs Delany were staying. Barbara had a contact number; it was a small hotel in Dover Court.

‘Hadn’t I told her to back off those two girls? Call her and get her back here immediately! We need her help to sort through these boxes.’ Mike Lewis, who had returned laden with documents taken from Andrea Lesser’s office, was furious when told what Anna was up to.

Barolli made the call. Anna’s phone was switched off so he left a curt message telling her to get back to the station as quickly as she could.

Anna was sitting with Mrs Delany in their hotel suite when Barolli tried to call. She was thankful that Mark Delany was not there too; in fact, Mrs Delany herself seemed relieved.

‘We’re returning to France in the morning so he’s just finishing up some business here.’

Anna went straight to the point, asking if Mrs Delany could confirm the dates of her daughter’s abortion. The woman immediately became very agitated.

‘Mrs Delany, I’m trying to piece together who Amanda knew and who could be a possible suspect.

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