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‘I hope I’m not overreacting, but…’

‘Tell me.’

‘We were out for a meal last night. She came back to mine and after awhile I got her a taxi home. Her car was left outside the restaurant. She wasn’t answering her phone this morning and I went to her house. The door was open. Her bag, wallet, keys and phone are all there, but she isn’t. She knew about the Life After Loss group, boss. She works with Bianca Tormey, Éilis Lawlor’s babysitter. This is similar to how Éilis disappeared, isn’t it?’ He paused. ‘It’s just so—’

‘Has Amy got any family she might be with today?’

‘I… I don’t know, to be honest.’

‘Try to find out, and once you locate her, I want you concentrating on these murder investigations.’

‘Thanks, boss. I’ll see what I can do.’

Lottie glanced at Boyd, and he shrugged.

She moved over and knelt down beside Kirby. ‘We will find your Amy. I need a description and whatever else you know about her. Can you do that for me?’

‘Sure, but we need to take a look at one of her co-workers. Luke Bray. He’s been harassing her. The little pup was smirking and mouthing off at the checkout this morning. We need to arrest him and find out what he did.’

‘One step at a time. Have you phoned around her friends?’

‘I don’t know her friends.’ His voice rose an octave. ‘I only met her two nights ago.’

‘So what do you know about her?’

She stared at him as he concentrated on a spot on the wall, skin pale and hair on end.

‘Nothing. I actually know next to nothing about her.’

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After Kirby had calmed down enough to start searching for details about Amy Corcoran, Lottie looked up to find Lynch standing in her doorway.

‘Have you got an update for me?’

Lynch’s eyes narrowed, and Lottie thought she looked worried.

‘Garda Brennan handed over a file she was working on for Kirby. Asked me to have a look at it.’

‘What file?’

‘The Tyler Keating cold case.’

‘And?’ Lottie snatched up her hair in an elastic band she’d rescued from the midst of the carnage in her drawer.

‘Jennifer O’Loughlin gave a statement around a week after Tyler Keating disappeared.’

‘Really?’ Lottie tried to get a timeline straight in her head. ‘Did Kirby not recognise her photo on the board or her name?

‘He didn’t take her statement.’

‘What did she have to say?’

‘Not much. She said her husband knew him.’

‘Had she any idea where Tyler might have got to?’

‘No. She came forward. Must have been after an appeal was made asking for information, but it looks like she didn’t actually have much information other than her husband had carried out some work for Tyler. Damien O’Loughlin had died from cancer a year before Tyler went missing. And…’

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