Page 53 of Murder in the Family

ALAN CANNING

Even a vintage one like that? In bright red?

MITCHELL CLARKE

Well, a) it was dark so it could have been sky-blue pink for all I’d have known, and b) it’s twenty years ago, mate. Yes, it could have been there, but I don’t remember seeing it, OK?

LAILA FURNESS

So what can we do about it now, all this time later?

GUY HOWARD

Like I said, Tarek and the research team are continuing to dig, so something may come up. And in the meantime—

BILL SERAFINI

—In the meantime, I suggest we focus on Caroline’s alibi. If this mandidgo to the house to see her that night it had to have been a surprise – she wouldn’t have gone out for a drink if she’d known he was coming.

JJ NORTON

On the other hand, he could have called her when she was at the party saying he was going round to the house, maybe even threatening to confront Luke? Maybe she panics, rushes back home, but it’s too late—

LAILA FURNESS

(frowning)

—And faced with her husband’s bloody corpse she just shrugs her shoulders and leaves it at that? Doesn’t call the police, doesn’t call an ambulance, just sashays on back for another strawberry daiquiri?

BILL SERAFINI

(nodding)

And no one at the party notices anything is wrong either. I’m not buying that.

ALAN CANNING

You’re all forgetting one thing. If this mysterious lover had called her when she was at the party, there’d be something in her phone records.

(gestures at the file)

But there’s nothing there. No calls madeorreceived on her phone that night that weren’t thoroughly checked and double-checked during the original investigation. Including the missed call from Maura at 10.52.

LAILA FURNESS

Texts?

ALAN CANNING

(shaking his head)

No. None.

LAILA FURNESS

She hit the delete key?

ALAN CANNING

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