Chapter ThreeRafferty set Llewellyn the task of organising a house-to-house of the neighbouring streets as well as making a start on the preliminary interviews of the other residents. In the hope that at least one possible suspect would be eliminated early in the proceedings, he sent DC Hanks off to speak to Freddie Talbot and get his statement as to his whereabouts this morning
While Llewellyn got on with the routine tasks, Rafferty contacted the station on his mobile to arrange for DS Mary Carmody to meet him in Mercer’s Lane to break the news of Clara Mortimer’s murder to her daughter, Jane Ogilvie.
Rafferty exited the murder scene and turned right into the High Street to walk the two hundred yards to Mercer’s Lane, relieved to know he would have Mary Carmody’s back-up when he broke t
