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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

After coming back from London, Rachel and Ade had spent the afternoon going back over all the evidence they’d gathered on both murders, looking for something that would push the investigation forward. The hair samples from Tara’s dress they’d sent off for analysis had come back. They weren’t a match for any of the people who’d been at the villa. Which either meant the killer was not part of the group at the villa or, the hair sample was unconnected with Tara’s murder. Rachel still had a pair of officers trawling through the CCTV footage in the area around Tara’s apartment building. So far, they hadn’t found anything that helped identify Tara’s killer.

‘I’ve been thinking,’ Ade said.

‘Uh-oh.’

‘Ha, very funny. Hear me out first before you mock, Rach. I’d like to go back and look at what each of the survivors was doing in the lead-up to the crash. It’s like – how can I explain it? – like there’s a piece missing, you know? Robbie and Ivan met on holiday, yet for some reason they kept this secret from the others. Then there’s Clodagh and Nick. There’s something she’s not telling us about that holiday. I don’t care what she says, I don’t believe it’s a coincidence she ended up staying at the same resort as Nick.’

‘We’ve already been over this,’ Rachel said. ‘If they were seeing each other, why would they keep it a secret? They were both single back then. They would have had no reason to hide their relationship.’

‘What if it was Vivienne?’ Ade said. ‘She would have known Nick too. Her and Clodagh used to eat at his restaurant together. If she was having an affair, she’d have wanted that kept quiet, right?’

Rachel took another sip of her drink as she considered this.

‘That would mean her marriage to Adam wasn’t the perfect union he’s always claimed it was.’

‘You think he made it up?’ Ade said.

‘I’m not sure. I bought his book when it first came out. Dreadful rubbish. Couldn’t get past the first few chapters. Now I know why. Because he was describing a fairy tale, wasn’t he?’

‘What do you mean?’

‘It’s so obvious,’ Rachel said, ‘I don’t know why it’s taken me this long to work it out. Adam and Vivienne. It’s probably not relevant to the investigation. Except it shows Adam Murray up as a liar. But people tell lies all the time. It doesn’t make them murderers.’

‘You do know I’ve no idea what you’re on about?’