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The Tuesday night vigil was also undisturbed. Day spent the following morning analysing everything he knew about Edward’s murder and the break-ins, then considered Edward and Konstantinos themselves, looking for any good reason why someone would commit an apparently motiveless murder or series of attacks against an inoffensive old man. This was the kind of thinking that Day was good at, although he was hampered now by lack of sleep. He ended up feeling he was missing something obvious.
That evening, Wednesday, Peppino took his turn in the big house again and Day was back in the workshop. Day expected another appalling night, but that was not what eventually happened. In the small hours of Thursday morning, when Athena’s owls were hooting in the darkness and Day lay listening on the wo
