Chapter 40
“So that’s why I said what I did about the Du Roses,” Hana concluded. “I feel really guilty about it now. I was under an incredible amount of pressure and I’d just read in the diary that the blond drover disappeared and nobody seemed to know where he’d gone. If you go back through the police records for then, there might be a missing persons’ report.”
Detective Inspector Odering eyed Hana with a look of utter bemusement and faint annoyance. “So you knew there’d been a murder on this property and actively concealed it?”
“No! Not at all!” Hana cried. “For all we knew, he took himself off somewhere and had a perfectly nice life. Phoenix Du Rose wrote that he disappeared and she didn’t know where he’d gone. But there’s a problem with handing the diary over.” Hana’s green eyes fla
