Graeme Cameron - Dead Girls - An addictive and darkly funny crime thriller

Signed off till Monday. Not going to feel guilty for having breakfast. ‘You’ve done a good job,’ I said, although I knew Sandra had probably beaten him here and taken control of the scene herself. ‘We haven’t got the whole car here. The bumpers, the tyres, all of the plastic and rubber bits that have melted off. They’re not here. We’re missing a debris field. Plus there are no drag marks, but there’s a trail of mud and oil at least all the way back to the top of the road. See?’ I indicated a set of thick, wide-treaded tyre tracks printed in clods of earth and clay, leading to and from the Mondeo and punctuated by a circular swirl on the tarmac at the entrance to the picnic site. ‘Someone carried it here on a tractor, right? Frontloader, teleporter, whatever you want to call it.’

Kevin nodded. ‘Which was thoughtful of them.’

‘Ha. So who, and why now? It’s been two months.’

He thought about it for a moment. Scratched his head. ‘Is there anything significant about the date?’

‘Not that I can think of.’

I knew where he was going to go before he went there. ‘Well, if we were in a film, I’d say The perp is sending us a message , but . . . we’re not, are we?’

‘Well, you might be,’ I conceded, ‘but whoever dumped this here isn’t. We’ve got a convenient trail of breadcrumbs, but it’s just muddy tyre marks and you can’t really engineer those. If they lead all the way to the burn site, it’s an accident. Also, never say “perp” again. You sound like an idiot.’

‘Agreed.’

‘It’s a pretty thin theory, isn’t it?’

‘Kind of.’

‘So what am I going to find when I leave you here to chase around after Sandra and go follow that trail by myself?’

‘Oh, come on!’

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