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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
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  91. Epilogue
  92. Acknowledgements
  93. About the Author
  94. By Lin Anderson

Whatever they all thought, she could do nothing about it.

As the door opened, Chrissy looked up, her brows knitted.

‘Oh, hi. You’re back.’

‘Any luck?’ Rhona said.

‘It’s never luck,’ Chrissy informed her, ‘it’s forensic genius.’

‘So you did find something?’

‘Every locus tells a story. Someone taught me that.’

Rhona met Chrissy’s smile with one of her own.

‘I’ve identified three matching sets of prints in the area near where we found the necklace. I’ve taken casts. The prints were deep and the pattern and depth could suggest they may have been carrying a weight between them, although Jen Mackie would be the one to decide that.’

Rhona listened quietly as Chrissy explained in more detail, using the images she’d taken.

‘It was more difficult to trace where the footprints originated, although the A855 passes pretty close by.’

‘What about the car park at the lookout point?’ Rhona said.

Chrissy shook her head. ‘I checked back that way, but lots of folk walk up from there. MRT had the barrier up quickly but with all the tourists and the wet weather . . .’ She tailed off.

‘Well done,’ Rhona said.

‘What about you and Blaze?’

Rhona described in detail their encounter with the girl in the plantation.

‘She actually referred to herself as Seven?’ Chrissy said in disbelief. ‘You do know what that means in army terms?’

‘Maybe there were seven in the group at one time?’ Rhona tried Alvis’s explanation.

‘Aye, right.’ Chrissy wasn’t convinced. ‘Well, if the gang left when she said they did, the guy on the beach isn’t one of them,’ Chrissy went on. ‘Which means we’ve been wrong about all of this.’

‘I’ve been wrong about all of this,’ Rhona corrected her.

‘Let’s see what the PM produces,’ Chrissy said. ‘If there’s any link between the evidence you collected in the woods and the body on the beach, that changes everything.’

36

McNab had done his best to smooth things over with Ellie. Even conceded against his better judgement that he couldn’t stop her if she wanted to offer Prince Harry a room. But, if she did, he wanted her to stay at his place.

‘You’ll have to clean up first,’ had been Ellie’s final riposte before she’d departed.

McNab disliked the idea of that job, even more than the reason for it. He resolved to finally take DS Clark’s advice when he’d mumped on about it earlier, and hire a one-day deep clean, whatever that was.

‘It’ll take four hours at least to make your flat safe for human habitation,’ she’d assured him.

‘How would you know?’ he’d countered.

She’d raised an eyebrow at that point and indicated his cubicle, which McNab had had to admit was rivalling Ollie’s workstation.