Chapter Seven
Tuesday 27th April 2010
02:54
Walter’s carcomes to a stop outside his son’s house, and the moon reflects onhis face. He gets out and starts up the small path through thegarden to the front door. He knows already that Gary isn’t going tobe here. The car is gone, and he is too late.
He knocks onthe door anyway and waits for a few moments, hoping that perhapsGary has been out for a couple of drinks with people from work andhas left his car in town, coming home by taxi. It isn’t that muchof a stretch of the imagination, is it?
After he feelsthat he has waited long enough, he walks down the path, backtowards his car. He can drive around and see if he can find hisson. It is then that something across the road catches his eye.
He could swearthat he is looking at a body lying o
