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  1. Cover
  2. Time for the Dead
  3. Dedication page
  4. Map
  5. Epigraph page
  6. Prologue
  7. 1
  8. 2
  9. 3
  10. 4
  11. 5
  12. 6
  13. 7
  14. 8
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  91. Epilogue
  92. Acknowledgements
  93. About the Author
  94. By Lin Anderson

‘Okay. This time it’s up to me,’ Chrissy mouthed. ‘But please come back soon, Rhona.’

She’d completed two-thirds of what she thought necessary by the time Lee’s predictions began to be realized. The wind she was experiencing when not in the shelter of the vehicle was now strong enough to remove a forensic tent, and the occasional flake of snow had become a thick flurry.

‘Chrissy?’ Lee’s voice brought her out of the vehicle. ‘Start making your way up to the road and a patrol car will take you back to Portree. We’ll cover the vehicle with a tarpaulin and try and lift it out tomorrow, depending on the weather.’

‘You’ll remove the bodies first?’

‘We’ll bag them and send them to Glasgow. The car we’ll try to lift out whole. Heavy equipment is on its way from Fort Augustus. And we’ll have more SOCOs here by tomorrow.’

Chrissy nodded. It was obvious this wasn’t the first time Lee and his team had had to deal with a difficult road accident recovery on Skye.

‘What about the chopper?’

‘It’ll have to wait until tomorrow when conditions should improve. Rhona and Alvis were prepared for an overnight stay,’ he assured her. ‘They’ll be okay. Plus Donald and Jamie and two more of the MRT are already headed into Duirinish.’

Chrissy nodded, hoping Lee’s words weren’t just said to make her feel better.

70

McNab, having drawn into the side of the road to answer Chrissy’s call, now re-entered the line of traffic and began weaving his way to the front.

What he’d just learned had necessitated a return visit to the station, and hopefully a full report from Janice, who was, as far as he could gather, still at Portree police headquarters, focusing on the Kilt Rock victim. A death that now appeared to be linked in some way to the medics’ trip to Skye.

On the way McNab went over again all that Chrissy had said, and married it to what he currently knew himself, then made a mental note to call in on Ollie and see if he’d gleaned anything further about the group and Afghanistan in particular.

On entry, however, he was informed that everyone had been called to the incident room, and he was required to join them there, so it looked like either DS MacDonald or DS Clark had already been in touch with the boss regarding the latest developments on Skye.

McNab felt the frisson of excitement that often accompanied a breakthrough in a case as convoluted as this one, and only wished that Rhona had been here to experience it. That took his thoughts west again to whatever godforsaken location Rhona had found herself in. With that thought came a stab of fear. If the medic group were part of this, then so too was Seven. And it was Seven whom Rhona sought on Duirinish.