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  2. INTRODUCINGKATIE MAGUIRE
  3. ALSO BY GRAHAM MASTERTON
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  5. Copyright
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  59. About the Author
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‘Let’s meet for lunch, then. A couple of glasses of fizz and some roast prime rib should restore your faith in humanity.’

‘It’s never humanity that worries me, Kieran. Only inhumanity.’

43

The following morning Katie allowed herself an hour extra in bed. She always found that her mind was much clearer just after she had woken up, and problems that had seemed impossibly knotted the night before would untangle themselves as if by magic.

Despite that, she was still unsure what to think about Feargal Grífin. Had Barry Riordan ordered him to murder Garrett, and if he had, why?

Maybe he had hoped that suspicion for the killing would fall on Thomas O’Flynn, but that seemed like a very shaky explanation. No anonymous calls had been made, blaming the O’Flynns, and no false evidence had been planted at the scene of the murder that might have led Katie’s detectives to believe that one of O’Flynn’s gang might have committed it.

It was still possible, of course, that neither Barry Riordan nor Thomas O’Flynn had any hand in Garrett’s murder at all, and that he had been killed by some vengeful ex-con who had been sent to prison by Garrett at some time in the past, and had recently been released. Maybe this ex-con had known Feargal Grífin and had arranged for him to pick up Garrett and drive him to White’s Cross to be executed. But why would Garrett have agreed to go with him – and on top of that, why would he have allowed him to drive his cherished Jaguar?

Again and again, Katie’s thinking kept returning to Orla Quinn. She knew from her own affair with Garrett that Orla was really the only woman in his life. He had always returned to her, no matter how often he had strayed. He had proved it, hadn’t he, by telling her the intimate details of every one of his affairs, including his affair with Katie herself? And there was no question that Orla had loved him dearly. Not just dearly – desperately. So would she really have gone so far as to have him killed?

Orla was a criminal lawyer herself, so it was likely that she had come across Feargal Grífin at some point in her career, and from the way she had been talking to him on the CCTV footage it was apparent that she knew him at least reasonably well.

Katie wondered if she had been right in thinking that Orla had simply wanted him threatened or beaten up, but that the punishment had all gone horribly wrong, and his car had been set on fire to obliterate any forensic evidence.