A Walk With the Dead
“‘This is like déjà vu all over again,’ he said to Liz Duffy.
Liz chuckled.
‘Now there’s a blast from the past,’ she said. Then she instantly grew more serious and added, ‘It’s not really a laughing matter, is it?’ No, Crane agreed, it really wasn’t – not when applied to a situation in which a fresh murder bore all the hallmarks of the one for which they’d already made an arrest.
Of course, the fact that Bill Horrocks had been behind bars since that morning didn’t necessarily mean that he couldn...’t also have killed the second victim, he thought hopefully, as they stepped through the park gates. The corpse could have been lying there undiscovered for some time – perhaps even for days.
Then he saw the floodlights, blazing down on a spot not fifty yards from where Jill Harris had been found, and that slim hope faded and died – because if the body had been there the day before, the officers scouring the area for clues to the first murder would almost certainly have found it.MoreLess
Liz chuckled.
‘Now there’s a blast from the past,’ she said. Then she instantly grew more serious and added, ‘It’s not really a laughing matter, is it?’ No, Crane agreed, it really wasn’t – not when applied to a situation in which a fresh murder bore all the hallmarks of the one for which they’d already made an arrest.
Of course, the fact that Bill Horrocks had been behind bars since that morning didn’t necessarily mean that he couldn...’t also have killed the second victim, he thought hopefully, as they stepped through the park gates. The corpse could have been lying there undiscovered for some time – perhaps even for days.
Then he saw the floodlights, blazing down on a spot not fifty yards from where Jill Harris had been found, and that slim hope faded and died – because if the body had been there the day before, the officers scouring the area for clues to the first murder would almost certainly have found it.MoreLess
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