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.”“Really?” She managed a faint smile.“They say every cloud has a silver lining.”Robin waited until Reed’s car was under way before going in search of his sergeant, who turned out to be coming in search of him.“Nasty business, sir.” Anderson ran his hands through his hair.“Looks like a similar MO to Youngs’s death.”“Likely to be the same killer then, unless we’ve got a clever copycat.Thank you, constable,” Robin said, brushing past the young officer with a nod.“Keep up the good work with the ghouls.”“They’ve almost all gone away, Inspector.Apart from the ones pretending to consult the timetable at the bus stop,” the policeman added, rolling his eyes.Anderson guided his boss through into the lounge.“Getting complicated, isn’t it?”“You’ve a great way of understating things.” Robin smiled, although that was wiped off his face at the sight of the body, a body that seemed to have been strangled.Narraway looked less belligerent in death, and there appeared to be little evidence of a fight, although maybe more of a struggle than Youngs had put up.A quick survey of the scene persuaded Robin they’d be better off leaving Grace, who was on CSI duty again, to see what she could rummage out.No obvious clues, so he’d let the experts run with that part of the job.“Okay to go through here?” Robin pointed to the French windows.“Yes, sir.I’ve processed them.Nothing there.They were locked.”“And not been opened for a while,” Anderson said as he stiffly turned the key and forced the doors open.It was good to get back out into the garden, into sweet fresh air, away from the stale nicotine smell that permeated the cottage.“Do you think we could have saved him?” Anderson kicked at the gravel path.“If he’d come clean about whoever it was he saw on the path at the back of the school?”Or if Robin hadn’t been sniffing around Adam Matthews and had kept his mind on the case? “I doubt it.Don’t beat yourself up.”Anderson’s glance was a bit too knowing again.“Makes that phone call your mate heard yesterday highly suspicious.I’ll get Davis onto accessing Narraway’s phone records.”“She’ll love you,” Robin said sarcastically.And since when had Adam been his mate? “When we were at the pub, you started to tell me something.This business with Narraway put it out of my mind.”Anderson looked puzzled, before light dawned.“Oh, yeah.It was about Duncan.I think you’ll appreciate this titbit a lot more now than you’d have done back at the pub.Possible motive.”“For him to have killed Ian Youngs?”“Not quite, which is the irony of it, given the timing.If I’d told you over lunch, it would have just been a bit of gossip.Now it’s half a reason why he might have wanted to kill Oliver Narraway.”“Bloody hell.” Robin tipped his head towards the front door.“Tell me the details when we’re back inside.I’m not convinced the Lindenshaw mafia aren’t hiding in the hedge.”Anderson rolled his eyes, but he kept silent until they were in the house.“Can I carry on?”“Please do.”“Brian Duncan applied for a job two months ago, as an accountant with Chilcombe Holdings.He was short-listed and made it through to the interview stage.Any idea who was on the panel?”Robin wasn’t in the mood to play games, especially when it concerned the labyrinthine goings-on of village life.“From your bloody inane grin, it has to be Narraway.What the hell was he doing there?”The sergeant continued to smile.“Old Pals Act.It’s his cousin’s company, and he often uses—used—Narraway to sit in on interviews.Whatever else the man was or did, he’d apparently had something to offer when it came to recruiting people.”“How did you find that out?”“Pal of Helen’s works for Chilcombe Holdings.On reception, so she knows who’s in and out of the company and what they’re doing.She heard about Youngs on the radio, knew Narraway was at St.Crispin’s.” The gossip network was a mixed blessing, but maybe this time it had come up trumps.“Back to the interview.Duncan didn’t get the job?”“Spot on [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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