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

‘Do you want someone to come and sit with you?’

Anne shook her head. ‘No, no, there’s no one I want to see. There was only David. He was everything to me. You don’t understand. How am I going to manage without him? He did everything for us, for me. He looked after me. He was my life, my whole life.’

‘Are you able to answer a few questions?’

Anne shook her head again. ‘I just want to be left alone. Please.’

‘Of course. Perhaps we can talk tomorrow.’

‘Talk? What is there to talk about?’ Anne stood up. ‘I need to make arrangements,’ she said, speaking very fast. ‘Where is he? What’s happening? We can’t just leave him lying out there. I need to call an undertaker. They’ll know what to do. You know about these things. Have you got the number of an undertaker? I want the best one in York. But will they even be open now? It’s –’ she glanced at her watch. ‘It’s the middle of the night! No one’s going to be open, are they? Or do they run a twenty-four-hour service? In any case, we need to bring him inside. We can’t leave him out there. Your people can carry him in, can’t they? But where should I put him?’

‘You don’t need to do anything just yet,’ Geraldine replied. ‘We’ll take care of everything for now. We won’t be bringing him in here. We need to take a look at him.’

‘Take a look at him? Take a look at him?’ Anne’s voice rose in a shriek. ‘What do you mean? I need to see he’s properly treated. I have to arrange a funeral, a decent send-off. I need to do that for him. I’m his wife. Oh God, how am I going to tell Jessica? With all that she’s going through.’ She began to cry.

Geraldine let her cry uninterrupted for a while and at last Anne quietened down.

‘I’ll send a constable to speak to Jessica first thing in the morning,’ Geraldine said. ‘We don’t need to wake her up, do we? Someone can go round there as soon as it’s light. You don’t need to tell her yourself, unless you want to.’

‘No, no,’ Anne replied. ‘I don’t – I can’t… not in the state she’s in. Oh God, this is all so awful. I can’t believe it’s happening.’ She turned to Geraldine with a wild glare. ‘You don’t really think someone did this to him, do you? How did he die? Tell me. I need to know.’

Geraldine shook her head. ‘I’m afraid we can’t say anything until the pathologist has examined him.’