"Murdered?", I choked out, "Ruari?" If you could faint in a chair I could have and then I thought that it was quite obvious when you thought about it. If he had shot himself the g*n would have fallen near him not under the bed. Or maybe he flung it away and it landed under the bed but there was the issue of the gloves. Then it was definitely murder. And also Ruari's final location. The box. How crudely fitting. After killing him, someone put him in the box and hid the g*n and gloves.
I immediately wished for arms on the stupid chair so I could have something to hold onto.
"That's what it looks like", said the garda, "We're still waiting to hear back from the hospital to see if the bullet matches the hole in Ruari's head."
I felt I was going to be sick at the way she casually talked a
