Wrong Place, Wrong Time (DS Ripley Book 1) by Brown P.S

Author:Brown, P.S. [Brown, P.S.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: P.S. Brown
Published: 2014-09-23T16:00:00+00:00

Mike watched the officers walk away from the shallow grave. What were they doing? They hadn’t reacted in the way he was expecting when you find a body. Why weren’t they calling people and arranging for the remains to be dug up? He focused more on the disturbed ground. With a sinking feeling in his stomach he realised that the vigilantes must have come back and moved the body. For a second he had a horrible feeling that maybe Ripley was involved. Maybe the corpse had been moved after he made the phone call to Ripley. He shrugged off this idea. Unless they had come very quickly after his phone call, during the hour where he dumped his car and trekked to this spot, they couldn’t have moved the body last night because he had been here all the time and he would have seen or heard something. When he thought about it more he knew it made perfect sense that the vigilantes had moved the body as soon as they realised there was a witness. It was an obvious move that he hadn’t even considered. It was also a stark reminder that, despite what ‘PC Paul Shepherd’ had told him about working together and trusting each other, the vigilantes obviously hadn’t trusted him to keep his mouth shut from the very start.

Without a body where would that leave him now? Would the detectives think his call was just a hoax? He returned his gaze to the officers and watched them disappear under the hanging branches of the trees at the edge of the quarry. Maybe they did believe him. He couldn’t remember telling Ripley that that was where he had hidden but they must have worked it out and were looking for signs that he had been there. He felt a slight glimmer of hope that they believed him but without a body what could they do now? He realised that he would have to call Ripley again. He hadn’t mentioned the incident when he had picked up his car and followed them to the cemetery, and met the woman who told him about her daughter. He had spent a number of nights following the incident, racking his brains, trying to remember the full registration plate of the vehicle but he could only recall NV02. But if he could give them the details of what the woman at the cemetery told him, then maybe they could work out which case she was talking about and locate her? And then maybe they could get more details about the vigilantes, because the woman definitely knew more about them than she confessed to him.

Mike watched as the officers emerged from the cover of the trees and returned to standing near their vehicles, deep in discussion. The woman whistled and the police dog galloped over to her as they joined the two police officers.

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