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Chapters (60)
  1. CRITICAL ACCLAIM FOR LEIGH RUSSELL
  2. Glossary of acronyms
  3. Prologue
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  60. Acknowledgements

‘All right,’ Jonathan went on. ‘Let’s pretend I never went to the airport. Pretend I never bought a ticket to Spain. I’ll go home and pretend none of this ever happened. How’s that? It’s not as if I can afford another flight anyway. So I won’t go away. Some stranger gets himself killed, and I’m not allowed to have a holiday. Listen, I solemnly promise to stay in York until you find the real culprit, even of it means throwing money away, all the money I spent on my trip. And now I’m going home.’ He stood up.

‘I’m afraid that may no longer be possible,’ Ian said.

‘What? Nothing’s changed since the last time I was here, and you couldn’t find any evidence I was guilty then. You didn’t even charge me. Don’t you see? Nothing’s changed since then.’

‘But you tried to leave the country,’ Geraldine told him, ‘and that changes everything.’

The solicitor spoke up for the first time. ‘My client has given his word that he won’t try to skip the country again –’

‘Skip the country?’ Jonathan repeated. ‘Skip the country? What kind of language is that? I was going on holiday. I thought you were supposed to be on my side.’

‘I’m afraid we’re not sure we can trust him,’ Ian told the solicitor. ‘We’ll continue this tomorrow. Interview terminated by DI Peterson at four forty-five pm.’

He nodded at a constable standing by the door who approached the suspect.

‘If you’d like to come with me, sir.’

‘What? Where are you taking me?’

‘You’re going to spend a night with us here and then we can continue this discussion in the morning,’ Ian said. ‘I’m afraid we have to stop now. We have other matters to attend to.’

Realising what was going to happen, Jonathan began to protest loudly.

‘No, no, you have no right to do this. No! I refuse to go to a cell. Bloody hell, do something, woman!’ He yelled at his solicitor.

‘There’s nothing I can do but I’ll be back tomorrow,’ she replied. ‘And then you will have to charge him or let him go,’ she added, turning to Ian.

‘But what about tonight?’ Jonathan insisted. ‘I can’t sleep in a cell. Oh, bloody hell, some holiday this is turning out to be.’

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‘Well, we now know he has a temper,’ Ian said to Geraldine as they walked away from the interview room.

‘That’s hardly a crime,’ Geraldine replied. She laughed. ‘If we’re going to treat everyone who has a temper as a suspect, there won’t be many people we won’t have to interview.’

‘It suggests he might have killed David in a fit of rage.’

‘It no more points to him being a suspect than anyone else. He had good reason to be annoyed.’