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Back The Lucky Eight
Chapters (64)
  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. Prologue
  4. Five Years Later
  5. One
  6. Two
  7. Three
  8. Four
  9. Five
  10. Six
  11. Seven
  12. Eight
  13. Nine
  14. Ten
  15. Eleven
  16. Twelve
  17. Thirteen
  18. Fourteen
  19. Fifteen
  20. Sixteen
  21. Seventeen
  22. Eighteen
  23. Nineteen
  24. Twenty
  25. Twenty-one
  26. Twenty-two
  27. Twenty-three
  28. Twenty-four
  29. Twenty-five
  30. Twenty-six
  31. Twenty-seven
  32. Twenty-eight
  33. Twenty-nine
  34. Thirty
  35. Thirty-one
  36. Thirty-two
  37. Thirty-three
  38. Thirty-four
  39. Thirty-five
  40. Thirty-six
  41. Thirty-seven
  42. Thirty-eight
  43. Thirty-nine
  44. Forty
  45. Forty-one
  46. Forty-two
  47. Forty-three
  48. Forty-four
  49. Forty-five
  50. Forty-six
  51. Forty-seven
  52. Forty-eight
  53. Forty-nine
  54. Fifty
  55. Fifty-one
  56. Fifty-two
  57. Fifty-three
  58. Fifty-four
  59. Fifty-five
  60. Epilogue
  61. Acknowledgements
  62. Canelo Crime
  63. About the Author
  64. Also by Sheila Bugler

‘Hair samples from both bodies have been sent for testing,’ Rachel said. ‘Lots of fingerprints in Tara’s apartment, but none matching any of our suspects. Apart from Clodagh’s on the door, but we already know she found the body. Her train got into London at 3:55 p.m. We’ve got CCTV footage of her coming through the ticket barriers. Pathologist thinks Tara was killed earlier than that, so we know Clodagh’s not the killer. The floor in Tara’s apartment is tiled. No carpet. CSI found the outline of several shoes on the tiles. Some are Tara’s, it’s not clear where the others came from. The floor hadn’t been cleaned in several weeks so it was pretty dirty, which hasn’t helped. We’re still checking CCTV from the area around the apartment building. So far, Clodagh’s the only one of our suspects we’ve picked up.

‘We know Adam Murray met someone for coffee in St James’s Park on Wednesday morning. His alibi has confirmed he was with Adam until just after midday. Adam had a meeting with his TV company at 3 p.m. He says he browsed some bookshops until then.’

‘What about Simon and his wife?’ Sharon asked.

‘We interviewed Simon on Wednesday afternoon,’ Ade said. ‘It’s possible he could have got to London and back prior to that. But he swears that the first time he left his house that day was when he came here for his interview. We’ve spoken to his neighbours and none of them remember seeing him leaving the house in the morning. But he could have slipped out without being noticed. Bella’s work has a security system and we’ve already checked that. She entered the building at eight a.m. Wednesday morning and didn’t leave again until eight p.m. that evening.’

‘A long day,’ Sharon said.

Something snagged at the back of Rachel’s mind when Sharon said this. But she couldn’t focus on it now, because Sharon was looking at her expectantly.

‘She’s a computer technician at Max-Roysten,’ Rachel said. ‘They’re rolling out a new IT system and she’s putting in a lot of long hours, apparently.’

‘Ivan Babić?’ Sharon asked.

‘Still no sign of him,’ Ade said. ‘As far as we know, he hasn’t left the country. There’s no record of him going through any border controls.’

‘Well that’s something, I suppose. Anything else?’

‘Right now,’ Rachel said, deciding she might as well go for it, ‘my gut is telling me there’s something dodgy going on with Adam Murray’s foundation.’

Sharon’s right eyebrow shot up, while her left remained exactly as it was.