Chapter Twelve
DC Nigel Beard pressed the button on the intercom for apartment eight at 23 Highland Street, Portside and announced himself. There was no response. He made his way around to the parking spaces behind the building. There was a green Mazda 3 parked in the bay for apartment eight. Nigel checked the registration number with the one he’d recorded on his phone. It was Gail Swan’s car. He kicked himself for not checking the parking space to see if there’d been a car in bay eight when he’d tried her door on the day he’d spoken to Mr Rehn.
He went back to the front of the building and tried the button for number seven.
‘Police! Is anyone home?’
‘What do you want?’ said a male voice.
‘Have you seen the woman that lives in number eight?’ said Nigel.
‘Gail?’ said the voice.
‘When
