CHAPTER FOURTEEN: EVIDENCE ON FILM DARKENS THE MOOD

“Joy Davies’s disappearance—and presumed killing—gives us the most forensic evidence of all six Towpath cases,” Fizz said.

The team sat around the conference table again, plates cleared, coffee replenished. The blinds were half-drawn now to keep the worst of the afternoon sun off the screens. Outside, the moor rippled under heat, the air above it slightly hazy.

“There was a struggle on Julie Margaret,” Fizz continued. “At least that’s what Rodney says he ‘found’ when he finally came back. Much later than he claimed he would. He blames himself, of course, for ‘bumping into’ his mates and going to the pub.”

She curled her fingers into exaggerated ai...

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