The Secrets of Crestwell Hall by Alexandra Walsh EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Alexandra Walsh
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CRESTWELL HALL, WILTSHIRE, NOVEMBER, PRESENT DAY
‘Your destination is on your right…’
The rain beat on the windscreen as the checkered flag and a red stop
sign lit up the screen of her satnav. Isabella flicked it off.
‘My destination isn’t on my right,’ she muttered to the blank screen as
she felt for the angel wing necklace around her neck in an unconscious
gesture, ‘it’s another three miles away.’
Her aunt had emailed detailed instructions on how to continue when the
satnav abandoned her in the middle of a country lane.
Keep driving until you come to a fork in the road,
she had written.
Follow it to the left and continue until you see the painted milk
churn, the entrance is a few metres past it.
The downpour was like a drum tattoo on the roof of the car, the heavy
clouds were drawing the night down as the rain turned the November
afternoon grey with mist and twilight. As the heavy drops splashed onto the
narrow road Isabella flicked on the radio wanting to fill the silence of the
car as she travelled the final few miles to her new home, her new life. Her
windscreen wipers tick-tocked like an old grandfather clock as they moved
to and fro across the screen flicking the rain aside.
‘…traffic chaos on the M25 motorway continues following
demonstrations from radical climate-change group, Empyrean. Members
have formed human walls across three of the busiest sections of—’ Isabella
switched off the news announcer on the radio.
The story about the protest had been developing throughout the journey
and there was chaos on the orbital road around London. Isabella was
relieved it had not impacted her own route. Teams of silent masked
protestors had drifted into the early morning traffic with no care for their
own safety, linking arms across the carriageways, forcing drivers to stop
until the junctions serving Heathrow, the M23 for Gatwick Airport and the
Dartford Crossing were blocked.
The tailbacks had brought the road to a
standstill. Dressed in black cloaks and plain masks making it look as though
there was a void where their faces should be, the protestors had stood in
eerie silence. Worse, in the past hour it had been revealed that several of the
protestors were wearing what appeared to be suicide vests; whether they
were armed or not, the police were unable to ascertain, but it was creating
havoc.
The army had been consulted and a huge operation was taking place
trying to clear the motorway of cars. Small sections were being guided
away at a time and drivers were becoming stressed and frightened. Isabella
shuddered at the thought of the carnage should someone detonate a bomb
under such circumstances. She wondered if her ex-husband, Keith Smith,
would have been consulted had he still been in the army, then pushed the
thought aside. She had turned the radio on for music, a jangly pop tune or
the thumping beat of a soft rock classic, not the terror of potential bombers
on a packed motorway and thoughts of her ex-husband.
A sleepy murmur came from the back seat where her ten-year-old
daughter, Emily, who had dozed off an hour earlier, stirred.
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