The Song Never Dies (2015)
“Serious Business 13. Serious Business Jack leaned forward across the still-warm hood of the Sprite and focussed his binoculars.
Kingfishers appeared bright and clear in the twin lens of his Swarovski special. Purchased for his new hobby of bird-watching, he realised he’d now used them more often for spying on suspects than catching glimpses of the elusive Red Footed Falcon.
And from up here on the hill — where he’d met with Sarah just days ago — he could see the whole estate: roads in and out, ...and even a hidden route down to the house, following the tree-lined edges of the fields.
The perfect vantage point.
Slowly he scanned the house, gardens and outbuildings.
A couple of cars — a Mercedes and an old Ford — were parked on the gravel out front, and he could see figures moving occasionally in the downstairs windows of the house.
Jack guessed that the Mercedes belonged to Gail King.
The Ford — that must be the housekeeper’s. Some discrete questioning at the Ploughman’s last night had revealed that — right now, with only Gail to look after — Kingfishers was being run by a skeleton staff.MoreLess
Kingfishers appeared bright and clear in the twin lens of his Swarovski special. Purchased for his new hobby of bird-watching, he realised he’d now used them more often for spying on suspects than catching glimpses of the elusive Red Footed Falcon.
And from up here on the hill — where he’d met with Sarah just days ago — he could see the whole estate: roads in and out, ...and even a hidden route down to the house, following the tree-lined edges of the fields.
The perfect vantage point.
Slowly he scanned the house, gardens and outbuildings.
A couple of cars — a Mercedes and an old Ford — were parked on the gravel out front, and he could see figures moving occasionally in the downstairs windows of the house.
Jack guessed that the Mercedes belonged to Gail King.
The Ford — that must be the housekeeper’s. Some discrete questioning at the Ploughman’s last night had revealed that — right now, with only Gail to look after — Kingfishers was being run by a skeleton staff.MoreLess
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