Chapter 2 – The FishermanAs the gathering broke up for the evening, Katie and Kim left together, walking through the lamp-lit streets. They parted ways near Katie’s house, leaving Kim with a twenty-minute walk home. She felt safe on the main road as she passed three pubs, a petrol service station and a small row of shops including a fish and chip shop and a Chinese takeaway. There were plenty of people in the vicinity – until the last five minutes of her walk.
Turning into her street, she could see her home a couple of hundred feet ahead, a small flat on the first floor of a Victorian house. As she was walking along, lost in her thoughts, a car screeched to a halt in front of her. She tried to let out a scream but was stifled by a hand over her mouth as the same two men who’d approached h
