Who Dies Beneath by L. J. Hutton

Author:L. J. Hutton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: detective, redemption, mythology, murder mystery, psychological, British, Elves, magical, mysterious death
Publisher: Wylfheort Books
Published: 2021-01-13T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

DESPITE WANTING VERY much to stay and see what the gardener unearthed, Bill knew he had to make a move for two reasons. The first was that he was painfully aware of how bad it would look if he was the one to find another body in such a short time. Suzanne might just about accept him being in the wrong place at the wrong time, but Superintendent Williams was perennially suspicious of Bill at the best of times, believing him to be in some sort of conspiracy to make him look a fool. Not that Williams needed any help with that, and Bill couldn’t wait for the approaching time when he would retire. But Bill’s other reason for going and getting into his car was his awareness of how little time he had between now and the new moon tomorrow. If he was going to find some connection, then he really needed to start chasing down the few leads that he had.

He could have stayed here and gone and spoken to the farmer whose saplings had been damaged by Damien, but if the gardener dug up a body faster than Bill expected, then that would still put him too close to the scene. Bloody hell, he thought, did you ever think you’d be running away from a crime scene for fear of being implicated? But Internal Affairs would have a field day with you after finding the girls, and if you’re under suspicion, there’s no way you can help anyone else, is there? And he was more convinced than ever that there was more to find.

So he drove around into Presteigne and then took the road up to Knighton to head for Thomas Mulligrew’s farm. Whichever way he went, he had to make something of a circuit because of the hills, and going this way took him towards where Sanay had been found, too. The drive certainly confirmed his suspicions that these bodies were all too close for comfort. Someone, or several someones, knew this area, and by the time he’d had to turn around twice to even find the track to the Mulligrew farm, he was even surer. There was no name sign to hint that an actual house lay up the extremely rough track, and even with the Subaru’s four-wheeled drive, Bill took it at a very slow pace.

The gate into the farmyard had once had a substantial chain around it, but that now draped in a rusty tangle around the post, and the gate itself was so dilapidated it would only have taken a good shove to knock it over. So it currently stood propped open, leaning at a wonky angle to its post as if ready to faint at any moment. Nor was the house much better. Getting out and walking up to it, Bill could see that whatever paint had once been on the windows had long since flaked away except for on the most sheltered ones, and when he gave a tentative push at one of them, he was sure it moved in its frame.

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