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Chapters (53)
  1. Dedication
  2. COPYRIGHT
  3. Chapter One
  4. Chapter Two
  5. Chapter Three
  6. Chapter Four
  7. Chapter Five
  8. Chapter Six
  9. Chapter Seven
  10. Chapter Eight
  11. Chapter Nine
  12. Chapter Ten
  13. Chapter Eleven
  14. Chapter Twelve
  15. Chapter Thirteen
  16. Chapter Fourteen
  17. Chapter Fifteen
  18. Chapter Sixteen
  19. Chapter Seventeen
  20. Chapter Eighteen
  21. Chapter Nineteen
  22. Chapter Twenty
  23. Chapter Twenty-One
  24. Chapter Twenty-Two
  25. Chapter Twenty-Three
  26. Chapter Twenty-Four
  27. Chapter Twenty-Five
  28. Chapter Twenty-Six
  29. Chapter Twenty-Seven
  30. Chapter Twenty-Eight
  31. Chapter Twenty-Nine
  32. Chapter Thirty
  33. Chapter Thirty-One
  34. Chapter Thirty-Two
  35. Chapter Thirty-Three
  36. Chapter Thirty-Four
  37. Chapter Thirty-Five
  38. Chapter Thirty-Six
  39. Chapter Thirty-Seven
  40. Chapter Thirty-Eight
  41. Chapter Thirty-Nine
  42. Chapter Forty
  43. Chapter Forty-One
  44. Chapter Forty-Two
  45. Chapter Forty-Three
  46. Chapter Forty-Four
  47. Chapter Forty-Five
  48. Chapter Forty-Six
  49. Epilogue
  50. DCI Logan Returns in…
  51. Hoon. Coming soon.
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“Wedding videos, mostly, and some corporate stuff.”

The page was offered across to Hamza, who reacted in similar disbelief to the figures. “No way you make that from wedding videos,” he said.

“You obviously haven’t seen the price of a bloody wedding video recently,” Tyler muttered, and he winced at the thought of the bill he still had to pay.

Logan took the printout and whistled through his teeth. “He’d have to be filming every bloody wedding in the Central Belt to hit those numbers,” the DCI said.

“Corporate stuff seems to be where most of their focus is,” Sinead said. “Going by the website, anyway. I’ve emailed the link.”

“What about the rest of the family?” asked Ben.

“Right, yeah. Donna Sutherland, Archie’s wife. Aged forty-six. They’ve been married for three years, met at a charity thing she was doing PR for a year before that. Bit of a whirlwind romance, it seems. The two younger victims—the girls—they’re hers from a previous marriage.”

“The father been informed yet?” Logan asked.

“We’re trying to get hold of him. He’s working with Doctors Without Borders in Libya at the moment. Someone is tracking him down.”

“Sounds like we can rule him out as a suspect, at least,” Hamza said.

“Aye,” Logan confirmed. “Pretty solid that, as alibis go.”

It was usually a decent shout, too, in situations like this—the father. There were few things more dangerous than a scorned man, and fewer still that would sink as low. Logan had attended too many cases where a jilted husband had taken his own life and those of his children, in some ultimate act of revenge.

One case. That was how many he’d attended.

One too many.

“She’s from the east coast, originally. Near Fife,” Sinead continued. “But she and the kids moved into Archie’s house shortly before the wedding.”

“In Girvan?” Logan asked.

“Aye. Same address as the business.”

Logan looked down at the page again, and that number with all its zeroes. “So… this is run from his house?”

“Aye, but I pulled it up on Google Maps,” Sinead said. “It’s a pretty big place.”

“Still…”

“You think it’s dodgy?” Ben asked.

Logan tore his eyes from the number on the printout. “If not, I’m in the wrong line of work,” he replied, then he waved the page for Sinead to continue.

“The girls were Alexis and Elizabeth. Aged thirteen and ten. Their surname’s Moir. They stuck with their dad’s name.”

“But the wife changed hers?” Tyler asked, and the others couldn’t miss the little barbs at the edges of the words. “When they got married, I mean, the wife took his surname? Like, you know, is traditional?”