COLD KILL
Every breath you take, he’ll be watching you…When Jane Roberts is found dead in a woodland area Detective Sergeant Laura McGanity is first on the scene. The body bears a chilling similarity to a woman – Deborah Corley –murdered three weeks earlier. Both have been stripped,strangled and defiled.When reporter Jack Garrett starts digging for dirt on the notorious Whitcroft estate, he finds himself face-to-face with Jane’s father and gangland boss Don who will stop at nothing until justice is done. It seems that the two murdered women were linked in more ways than one and a dirty secret is about to surface that some would prefer stay buried.As the killer circles once more, Jack and Laura must get to him before he strikes again. But his sights are set on his next victim and he’s watching Laura’s every move…
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Neil White
Cold Kill
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Contents
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Chapter One
The evening was bright and warm, the sun dipping behind…
Chapter Two
It was a few days later when Jack Garrett got…
Chapter Three
It was just after nine-thirty as Laura McGanity looked around…
Chapter Four
Jack put his camera away as he watched the activity…
Chapter Five
Laura leaned against her car and peeled off her forensic…
Chapter Six
Jack was smiling by the time he reached the court,…
Chapter Seven
Laura chewed her lip as Carson approached the home of…
Chapter Eight
Laura tapped her pen against her hand as she sat…
Chapter Nine
Laura was in Carson’s slipstream as he rushed into the…
Chapter Ten
Jack strode into the offices of the Blackley Telegraph, a…
Chapter Eleven
Jack had to park some distance from the police station…
Chapter Twelve
Carson waited until they were clear of the journalists before…
Chapter Thirteen
Jack was sitting in his car, writing the story on…
Chapter Fourteen
Jack checked the clock. Just gone nine. Bobby was playing…
Chapter Fifteen
He rewound the footage again, as he had done for…
Chapter Sixteen
Jack’s movements felt sluggish as he read the words on…
Chapter Seventeen
Light streamed through the open curtain, making Jack groan. He…
Chapter Eighteen
Jack threw his car keys onto the table. Bobby was…
Chapter Nineteen
Carson was first into the mortuary, pushing the door open…
Chapter Twenty
Jack went to the Blackley Telegraph office first. Dolby was…
Chapter Twenty-One
Laura checked her notes, just to make sure that she…
Chapter Twenty-Two
Jack was outside the court when he managed to speak…
Chapter Twenty-Three
Jack had texted Laura to let her know that he’d…
Chapter Twenty-Four
Laura sat at the back of the Incident Room as…
Chapter Twenty-Five
The Incident Room was still busy from the lecture Carson…
Chapter Twenty-Six
Laura glanced out of the car window and felt a…
Chapter Twenty-Seven
Jack was at the table, hunched over his laptop, writing…
Chapter Twenty-Eight
Laura was looking down as she started the jog up…
Chapter Twenty-Nine
Nothing was clear anymore. He drove quickly in the van,…
Chapter Thirty
Jack had finished the article for Dolby and was drinking…
Chapter Thirty-One
Jack looked out of the window. He was standing a…
Chapter Thirty-Two
The morning arrived as a stream of sunlight through the…
Chapter Thirty-Three
Jack had been distracted by the emails, because the first…
Chapter Thirty-Four
Rupert glanced towards the building that had been his practice…
Chapter Thirty-Five
Jack trotted across the road to the court building. He…
Chapter Thirty-Six
Rupert checked his watch, nearly eleven-thirty, and looked up at…
Chapter Thirty-Seven
Some kids looked at Jack’s car as he drove onto…
Chapter Thirty-Eight
The noise in his head was like a drum-roll as…
Chapter Thirty-Nine
Laura checked her watch as Joe drove along the Cleveleys…
Chapter Forty
As Jack arrived home, he saw that there was someone…
Chapter Forty-One
Adam Carter glanced around the house when he went inside,…
Chapter Forty-Two
Joe was on the phone to Carson, updating him, when…
Chapter Forty-Three
As the sound of Adam’s car disappeared into the hills,…
Chapter Forty-Four
The streets of Whitcroft seemed quiet as Jack drove onto…
Chapter Forty-Five
Jack continued to drive around the estate, looking for something…
Chapter Forty-Six
Jack drove around the estate, feeling better about his article.
Chapter Forty-Seven
Jack held up the wine bottle to the light. Probably…
Chapter Forty-Eight
The morning had been a long time coming.
Chapter Forty-Nine
Jack woke up filled with determination, the emails fresh in…
Chapter Fifty
Laura leaned back in her chair and rubbed her eyes.
