Chapters (81)
- Cover
- About the Author
- Dedication
- Prologue
- One
- Two
- Three
- Four
- Five
- Six
- Seven
- Eight
- Nine
- Ten
- Eleven
- Twelve
- Thirteen
- Fourteen
- Fifteen
- Sixteen
- Seventeen
- Eighteen
- Nineteen
- Twenty
- Twenty-one
- Twenty-two
- Twenty-three
- Twenty-four
- Twenty-five
- Twenty-six
- Twenty-seven
- Twenty-eight
- Twenty-nine
- Thirty
- Thirty-one
- Thirty-two
- Thirty-three
- Thirty-four
- Thirty-five
- Thirty-six
- Thirty-seven
- Thirty-eight
- Thirty-nine
- Forty
- Forty-one
- Forty-two
- Forty-three
- Forty-four
- Forty-five
- Forty-six
- Forty-seven
- Forty-eight
- Forty-nine
- Fifty
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- Fifty-three
- Fifty-four
- Fifty-five
- Fifty-six
- Fifty-seven
- Fifty-eight
- Fifty-nine
- Sixty
- Sixty-one
- Sixty-two
- Sixty-three
- Sixty-four
- Sixty-five
- Sixty-six
- Sixty-seven
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Read More
- Prologue
- One
- Two
- Three
- Four
- Follow Merilyn online
- Dedication
But what I found out from that call was her desire to be rid of Eve matches my own. Her determination to get to the truth as insistent as mine is to hide it, because Aoife’s blood runs through her: wilful, powerful, beautiful Aoife. So as we both race to the finish line, it’s up for grabs who’ll get there first, but either way it’s Eve who will be the final prize.
Thirty-five
The Telephone Unit had finally come good. Carla opened up Connor’s phone bill: row upon row of calls he’d made and received, all presented in order of date and time, the duration of each marked down to the second.
She got the familiar buzz from knowing this was going to move things forward and sorted the lists by telephone numbers. She then highlighted all calls to or from telephone numbers belonging to the four women: Joanne, Gloria, Kelly-Anne and Eve.
She drew blanks for Joanne and Eve, but Connor’s phone had made calls to Gloria and Kelly-Anne’s phones not long before he died. Carla checked the times: the call to Kelly-Anne’s phone was timed at 22:02 and the one to Gloria’s, at 22:28.
She opened Maps on her phone and typed in the travelling times from the women’s home addresses to the flat where Connor was killed. It was impossible for either to have travelled the distance to the flat between their phone call and his death at approximately 23:00.
Carla reordered the data by time and date and searched to see the calls made and received in the time leading up to Connor’s death. Other than the two calls made by Connor’s phone, there were only two calls in any of the phone bills made around the time of his death: at 22:59 to Connor’s phone, but one at 22:45 to Joanne’s.
What if that was the killer calling to check Connor was in? But why call Joanne just before? Carla ran the number through the rest of the phone bills, but found no other calls to or from it, and a quick Google search drew a similar blank.
‘Shit.’ She was going to have to submit a request to get the name of the phone’s owner, which meant another call to the Telephone Unit.
Bremer called out from his office. ‘Problems?’ He appeared at his office door, sleeves rolled up, collar undone.
‘What you got?’ He nodded towards the phone data. ‘Anything?’
She pointed to the number highlighted in red. ‘Someone called Joanne right before they phoned Connor on the night he died.’
He walked over to the screen and peered at the numbers. ‘Have you run it through the databases?’
‘Yes, and Google. It comes back blank.’
He stared at the screen, nodding. ‘Could it be our killer?’
She didn’t want them to get ahead of themselves. ‘Let’s wait to see who it comes back to.’
‘Was the call answered?’