The Language of the Dead (2015)
“Harris met them by Blackwell’s cottage and reported that Lydia Blackwell had not come home from work on the previous night and that Abbott also had not returned home.
“So she’s gone away with the old man, then,” Wallace said.
“Looks like it,” Rivers said. “I said that those two were hiding something.” Rivers believed for certain now that Lamb had bollixed his initial chance to solve Blackwell’s killing by being too solicitous toward Lydia and wasting time looking into the nonsense about the gho...st dog on the hill.
Rivers had last been in charge of an investigation more than six months earlier, in Warwickshire. The case was one of murder—the wife of a prominent local man had been gunned down in the couple’s bedroom. The man had told what Rivers believed to have been a concocted story about a burglar having come into the bedroom in the dead of night and shot the wife when she’d confronted the man. The husband claimed that he and his wife had argued earlier in the day and he’d therefore slept on a sofa in his study and hadn’t seen the burglar.MoreLess
“So she’s gone away with the old man, then,” Wallace said.
“Looks like it,” Rivers said. “I said that those two were hiding something.” Rivers believed for certain now that Lamb had bollixed his initial chance to solve Blackwell’s killing by being too solicitous toward Lydia and wasting time looking into the nonsense about the gho...st dog on the hill.
Rivers had last been in charge of an investigation more than six months earlier, in Warwickshire. The case was one of murder—the wife of a prominent local man had been gunned down in the couple’s bedroom. The man had told what Rivers believed to have been a concocted story about a burglar having come into the bedroom in the dead of night and shot the wife when she’d confronted the man. The husband claimed that he and his wife had argued earlier in the day and he’d therefore slept on a sofa in his study and hadn’t seen the burglar.MoreLess
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