Unraveled Visions (A Shaman Mystery) by Nina Milton

Author:Nina Milton [Milton, Nina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: mystery, england, mystery novel, medium-boiled, british, mystery fiction, suspense, thriller
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD.
Published: 2014-09-01T00:00:00+00:00

seventeen

At twenty past eight the following morning, I scooted over to the Agency of Change. I had an appointment at the police station at nine a.m. I’d been charged with the duty of identifying the body in the absence of Mirela. Before that, I needed to see Fergus. He probably knew the bad news: that Mirela had gone and Kizzy had been found. That Kizzy was dead. But I had a task for him.

I parked and went into the Polska Café, where Fergus had said he’d meet me before starting work upstairs. There he was, in his dark corner, a latte in front of him. I didn’t think my stomach would keep breakfast down so I bypassed the woman behind the counter, who I could recall Fergus called Maria. “Hi,” I said, taking the seat opposite him. I’d not gone into details in my text, and now I wasn’t sure how to start.

“How are you?” he asked.

“Not good, Fergus. Have you seen the news?”

“The local news?”

“All the news.” I’d been hoping he’d’ve put two and two together. “They found a body. By the power station.”

“Hinkley Point?”

“Yes. Fergus—I think it’s Kizzy.”

He blinked, as if only half awake. “Jesus and Mary.”

“They’re asking me to ID the body. But surely, you knew her more officially than me—”

At that moment, Maria, smiling like a babushka, placed a cup of tea in front of me. “On the house,” she said.

“That’s so kind,” I said, but the woman was already heading to the counter.

“It’s the way with the Polish, over here,” said Fergus. “They feel they’ve been offered kindness. They offer kindness back.”

Fergus tended to simplify things, and sometimes romanticize things too. I took a sip of my tea. “It’s so sad. But now I’m scared for Mirela. She’s missing, Fergus. I heard about Kizzy on the evening news and I went straight round. So did the police. But she’d taken off. Piecing things together, it looks like she walked out of her accommodation yesterday after getting home from her early shift. She’d packed all her things and left with them.”

“She’d heard the news?”

“That’s the odd thing. According to her house mate, she was gone before the news broke.”

“Do you think she suspected something like this was about to happen?”

I had wondered that, but it had taken Fergus to put it into words. Had Mirela disappeared because she simply knew? Did she have second sight after all?

“I’m thinking, Sabbie, that it’s possible Mirela always knew Kizzy was dead.”

It was a dreadful thought—one I preferred not to dwell on. “She was distraught at Kizzy’s disappearance.”

“Okay, but what do we know about her after all? Only what she chose to tell us.”

I swallowed. “There’s a police alert out. Check a news site on your office computer, Fergus. They’re scouring the West Country for her.”

“Because she has information? Or is at risk?”

For some reason, my heart was thudding. I hated the way his mind was working. I took an A4 envelope from my bag and slid it over the table.

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