Thirty-Five
DI Reid wasn’t the only one looking for the Trimmer brothers. Ever since the war council at the Portside Hotel, Mike Steele had been on their trail. He was also looking for Susie Morte, but not for the same reasons DI Reid wanted to find her.
The first thing he discovered was that Rosie was now using her maiden name: Mortimer, and that she was still living in the house she had shared with Jack at Morton Sands. No-one answered his knock when he visited the house in Longbottom Street, so he talked to the neighbours. After he’d passed one of them a fifty, she told him that Rosie had driven off around ten o’clock on the morning of the previous Wednesday, the same day as the shootings at the Merlin, and hadn’t come back. She also told Mike that the police had been around looking f
