Just Another Missing Person by Gillian McAllister EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Gillian McAllister
- Language: English
- Genre: Kidnapping Thrillers
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JULIA
Julia is trying to work out if the man at the table next but one is somebody
she has arrested before. He’s ordering a caramel cheesecake, out with a wife
and two children, and she’s pretty sure she once charged him with murder.
The lighting is low; she just can’t tell.
She is trying not to let her husband and daughter know what she’s seen,
eyes down on the menu.
“Nando’s is cringe these days, isn’t it?” Genevieve says. Julia smiles at
her arch only child.
“In what way?” Art says, bristling. Art, after Art Garfunkel, her
husband. An English teacher, a pedant, a ditherer, the last man still using
semicolons in text messages. And, until recently, the love of Julia’s life.
The cheesecake arrives at the maybe-murderer’s table. Julia watches
him as he looks up. He has two phones, both facedown on the table in front
of him. A dead giveaway of a criminal. She’s pretty sure it’s him.
Something about the brow . . .
“Oh, just—you know. Cheeky Nando’s and all that. Like, give it a rest,”
Genevieve says. She picks up a menu. She’s in a black halter-neck tucked
into high-waisted jeans. Large gold hoop earrings. She looks amazing, but
she wouldn’t care if she didn’t. That’s Genevieve all over: she does
whatever the hell she likes. Sometimes, Julia is pleased to have raised a
strong woman like this. Sometimes, less so.
It’s seven o’clock in the evening, and Julia can’t quite believe that she’s
here. That nothing came up, that she made it.
“They do nice chicken,” Art says mildly, perhaps slightly wounded: it
was his choice of restaurant.
The cheesecake is almost finished. John. Julia thinks he’s called John.
She glances at him again and slips her phone out. “John murder
Portishead,” she types into Google. She’s sure he shouldn’t be out yet. It
was a stabbing in the town center, brutal. He got life, and not that long ago.
The Google search is too wide; too much comes up. Just as she’s
considering typing something else, the phone trills: it’s the station.
“DCI Day,” the force incident manager says into Julia’s personal mobile
—the one she always uses—and that’s when Julia’s heart begins its
predictable descent down her chest. “High-risk missing person just in,” he
says, and it lands fully at her feet.
Julia sighs. No peri-peri chicken, no more banter with Genevieve. Just
work. This is the job. This is the job, she repeats to herself. That has
become her mantra after twenty years in the police.
After she’s taken the details, she stares at the table. A twenty-two-yearold missing woman. No mental health history. Last seen on CCTV
yesterday. Housemates phoned it in when she didn’t come home. Those are
the facts.
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