Chapters (156)
- A DATE WITH DEATH
- Also by Mark Roberts
- A Date With Death
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- The Past
- 1977
- Day OneWednesday, 1st December 2021CatoptrophobiaFear of mirrors
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- The Past
- 1979
- Day TwoThursday, 2nd December 2021OneirophobiaFear of dreams
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- The Past
- 1980
- Day ThreeFriday, 3rd December 2021MonophobiaFear of being alone
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- The Past
- 1982
- Day FourSaturday, 4th December 2021ThanatophobiaFear of Death
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- About the Author
- An Invitation from the Publisher
‘The thing we now know is whoever’s been abducting, killing and skinning women isn’t doing this on his own. I’ll take this to CCTV4U, get them to drop everything and clean up what we have,’ said Hendricks.
Cole walked back towards his desk.
‘Thank God for Mrs Hobson. Hopefully, like the last of the little piggies, I’ll be able to follow the white van all the way home.’
32
10.14 am
Clay sat next to Poppy Waters and looked at Annie Boyd’s two open laptops and two mobile phones.
‘The mobile phones are relatively old. As I said when Gina Riley brought the haul in, she must have taken her current mobile out with her when she went on the date. There’s nothing on the phones of any note.’
Poppy indicated the older of the laptops, a Lenovo.
‘This one’s a school laptop. All it contains relates to school work and nothing else.’
‘What about this one?’ asked Clay.
‘This is the one. This is the good news,’ said Poppy. ‘And this is where we get a lucky break. This laptop is synced to her current iPhone, so anything she’d been doing on her missing iPhone’s been mirrored on this. Internet searches, YouTube.’
‘What’s she been looking up on the internet, Poppy?’
‘In the week before she went missing, she’s been buying underwear from Victoria’s Secret. On YouTube, she’s been watching and listening to videos for all manner of love songs.’
Poppy brought up the Pebbles On The Beach website, typed in Annie Boyd’s username and password.
‘She didn’t use the site prolifically. There were two men she entered into a dialogue with.’
‘What about the two men she talked to?’
‘The language they used is similar. It could be one and the same man. This is the first guy she communicated with. He calls himself Danny Guest.’
Hi Annie, I’d be grateful if you could allow me to have an initial dialogue with you with a view to us getting to know each other a little better. If you don’t feel comfortable with this, I can understand absolutely and wish you all the best in finding a man who will one day no doubt, I’m assuming and quite rightly, worship the ground you walk upon. Wishing you all the best, Danny.
Dear Danny, Of course I’m happy to talk to you over the website. Maybe you’d like to tell me a little bit about yourself? On your profile you don’t say anything about what you do for a living? What are your interests other than watching football and soul-searching?
Poppy scrolled and scrolled through thousands of words sent back and forth.