Chapter 2
Stella and Brian arrived at the Ryan house shortly after seven-fifteen. Policemen with torches and dogs were searching the driveway and surrounding fields. Stella knew there were officers knocking on doors and interviewing everyone that lived along the road to the house from Stirling.
They were admitted into the house by a uniformed constable from Stirling.
'The Ryan's are in the front room, Sergeant.'
Stella looked through the open doorway into the room. A man of about forty, dressed in jeans and a dark sweater, sat in an armchair with his head in his hands. In front of the window, staring into the darkness, stood a woman in her mid-thirties dressed in a navy business suit, and on the sofa opposite the man sat a younger woman with red eyes who Stella presumed was the nanny.
