The notion of buying a house was quite exciting. She’d have to buy some furniture. Perhaps her mother could lend her a few pieces to start her off. The family home was crammed with stuff her parents didn’t use. At the thought of her family her excitement was replaced with a touch of sadness. Her brother had returned to his medical work. She missed Simon. Perhaps it was being a twin that made her feel the absence more. Perhaps it was the knowledge that all she really had was her job. She liked her job and thought, on the whole, she did it well. True, she made the occasional slip-up. Allowing the Stebbingses to see the corpse of their son at the scene had been one of them. But the superintendent had expressed his satisfaction at her handling of the case, now it was closed.
‘Well,’ said Jess aloud, ‘it’s as closed as it can be before a trial. Who knows what a jury may decide?’
She put her Marks and Spencer’s chilled moussaka in the microwave and took the bottle of white wine from the fridge. She poured a glass and raised it in a toast. ‘Cheers! Here’s to crime!’
The sun was setting over the lake at Overvale. Against the darkening sky a shape appeared, nearing the spot. With a rush of wings it swooped down and landed close to the jetty. Spike settled his feathers, squawked once triumphantly, and slowly and with dignity began to patrol his domain.
Also by Ann Granger
Fran Varady crime novels
Asking For Trouble
Keeping Bad Company
Running Scared
Risking It All
Watching Out
Mitchell and Markby crime novels
Say It With Poison
A Season For Murder
Cold In The Earth
Murder Among Us
Where Old Bones Lie
A Fine Place For Death
Flowers For His Funeral
Candle For A Corpse
A Touch Of Mortality
A Word After Dying
Call The Dead Again
Beneath These Stones
Shades Of Murder
A Restless Evil
THAT WAY MURDER LIES. Copyright © 2004 by Ann Granger. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
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First published in Great Britain by Headline Book Publishing
eISBN 9781466823723
First eBook Edition : June 2012
EAN 978-0312-33827-5
First St. Martin’s Minotaur Edition: January 2005
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