Chapter Eight
First thing Monday morning, Carl met with DCI Rankin to discuss his cases.
‘We’ve got little to go on, Chief, apart from that image of a man on a bike coming out of Grant Lane around the time of the murder,’ said Carl, ‘and a statement from a patient in the hospital saying she’d seen a man dressed in black standing around with a bike opposite the hospital and following a woman down the lane around the time our victim left the hospital.’
‘Sounds like he’s your man, then,’ said DCI Rankin.
‘I can’t argue with that, Chief, but we still have to find him,’ said Carl. ‘I’d like to know how he disappeared so quickly. We had patrols in the area looking for him within ten minutes.’
‘Makes you think he must have had a vehicle parked nearby,’ said DCI Rankin. ‘Did I hear correctly
