Chapter Thirty-Two“So, now we're alone, what did you want to talk to me about?” Agnes asked, once they were seated in the room upstairs.
“For a start, I want to know whether you were telling me the truth when you told me you had never seen Robert Jamison again after spotting him in reception.”
Agnes tapped her lips as she thought through how to answer. She could continue being dishonest, as she had done on the quayside. But, reminding herself of her earlier thoughts, she believed the time had come to tell the truth.
“Actually Alan, I admit I was lying to you back then. Jamison was sitting in the hotel restaurant when you and your sergeant walked in. He and his girlfriend, Deborah Swift, were at a table close to where Sandra and I were sitting.”
“And you didn't think to tell me at the t
