Page 101 of Making a Killing

[sound of barking]

Goldie!Goldie– come back here!

Sorry – I’ve come outside with the dog because I can’t bear being inside but I can’t go in the woods because that’s where she was and if I stay in the damn village everyone will be looking at me –

[she’s become shrill and must realize it because she stops herself and takes several deep breaths]

I’m sorry –

TB:No need to apologize.

[pause]

MS:Al said you wanted to know who Rob was working for.

TB:Like I said, we really need to do this at the station –

MS:All I know is that the company’s called Dry Riser. I don’t have their contact details but they’ll have a website – they’re pretty big, even I’d heard of them. Rob was doing background on some project that’d been pitched to them. She was pretty excited about it, whatever it was. Said she’d found something out that she knew the producer would really go for. I think she said ‘explosive’, or some word like that. Something that would really sell, anyway.

TB:She didn’t tell you any more than that?

MS:No, just that it was a UK case not a US one, which is why they asked her to look into it, since she was going to be over here anyway.

TB:She definitely used the word ‘case’, did she?

MS:Yeah, I remember that – she was teasing me because she knows I’m a sucker for all that true crime stuff. I made her promise to spill the beans when we met up but then we never did –

[sound of stifled crying]

TB:I’m sorry. Look, we can do the rest here later -

MS:[sniffling]

It’s OK, it’s just so unfair. All of it. She never hurt anyone.

TB:It must have been a difficult job, though, sometimes? Finding things out – things people might not want you to know –

MS:What do you mean? You think someone killed her because of herjob? She wasn’t that kind of person – she was determined, yes, but she wasprofessional– she’d never do something underhanded –

TB:We’re just trying to find out what happened –

MS:And Al said you were asking about someone namedSabrina Madigan and some other woman – he forgot to write it down so I couldn’t google it. Something about hair on Rob’s body?

TB:That’s right – we just wanted to know if either of the names were familiar to you.

MS:What was it? The other name?

TB:Daisy Mason.

MS:[sound of tapping]

But this can’t be the same person – it says here she’s dead – she’s been dead foreight years–

TB:It’s the same person, Mrs Stirling –

MS:But that doesn’t make any sense -

TB:It didn’t to me either. But now, maybe it’s starting to.

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