After the committal hearings, Lina took a car and headed for the address DS Healy had given her for Southern City Domestic Services, an office on the second floor of a nondescript office block located on Greenhill Road, Parkside. It was almost midday when she arrived and searched the tenant board to confirm she was in the correct building.
There was no-one at reception. Lina rang the bell and waited.
An older woman with hair so black, it had to be from a bottle in Lina’s assessment, appeared through a doorway behind the desk, holding a steaming mug of coffee. ‘Help you, luv?’
Lina held up her ID. ‘Detective Constable Palumbo. I understand you provide cleaning services to a Margaret Rutherford in Hyde Park.’
‘I’ve been trying to contact her ever since I saw she’d been abducted,’ said th
