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Caroline and Dexter got back into her car, glad for the warmth. They’d put out a call for local units to keep eyes open for a blue estate car, as well as sightings of Amie Tanner. Although their instinct might’ve been to head straight off in the direction of Uppingham, it had been quite some time since Amie and her abductor had left, and they could’ve been absolutely anywhere by now.
Officers were already on their way to the scene, where they’d be able to search the car properly and take an official statement from the man they’d spoken to, who’d eventually identified himself as Eric Darnforth.
‘It’s got to be someone she knows,’ Dexter said. ‘She’s not the sort of woman who’d get into a stranger’s car on a whim. She’d sooner beat him black and blue.’
‘I’ve got to agree it narrows th
