Watching From the Dark by Gytha Lodge

Author:Gytha Lodge [Lodge, Gytha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery, Suspense
ISBN: 9781984818072
Google: udLMDwAAQBAJ
Amazon: B07SBRKD49
Goodreads: 49418492
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2020-02-15T06:00:00+00:00

* * *

—

HANSON AND O’MALLEY gave him an update on the CCTV footage. They’d made little headway with their suspects but had successfully picked up Zoe walking farther toward town, down Hill Lane, on a single supermarket camera they’d managed to talk the owners into giving them the feed from. It gave them little indication of where she was ultimately headed, but she was still hurrying.

He wondered if he ought to call Wilkinson to speed up the CCTV harvesting. During serious investigations it was accepted that rank might be pulled. But it was the sort of card you couldn’t play too often, and the DCS might query whether this was sufficiently vital information to justify stepping in. That usually entailed potential threat to life, and there was no particular reason to suspect that the killer might strike again.

“Did you make any progress on Felix Solomon hacking our systems?” Jonah asked O’Malley, shelving those thoughts for the time being.

“Actually I made a surprising amount,” O’Malley said, minimizing the video app and bringing up a very outdated-looking database instead, on a sickly green background and full of buttons with console script on them. The overall impression was that it hadn’t been updated since the ’90s, and he could have guessed without being told that this was a police database. “I’ve had some live tutoring from a particular young man named Ziggy, who got thrown out of a computer science course, and I’m now seeing logins for the entirety of East Sussex. Which, needless to say, is not something I should be seeing.”

“Jesus,” Jonah said quietly. “So what’s that telling you?”

“That there are literally hundreds of group logins for particular cases that were never closed down after they were opened up,” he said, scrolling up and down a list to the right of the screen, “and I’m going to bet that ones like ‘Executive Team Internal Corruption Inquiry’ have quite extensive access.” He shook his head. “My next move is to narrow down all the ones that were open before Felix Solomon retired. But if you’re asking if he’s probably been nosying where he shouldn’t, it’s a definite possibility. All of this is remotely accessible and it wouldn’t take a genius to try a few old logins and see if they worked.”

“Thank you,” Jonah said, not sure whether he was worried about Zoe’s landlord or inclined to think he’d be doing exactly the same in his shoes. “And see if you can recruit that young man to work for us. The alternative is too awful for words.”

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.