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Table of Contents

Title Page

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Dedication

The Inspector Walter Darriteau | Murder Mysteries | David Carter | Box Set I

The | Murder Diaries | Seven Times Over

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Chapter Nineteen

Chapter Twenty

Chapter Twenty-One

Chapter Twenty-Two

Chapter Twenty-Three

Chapter Twenty-Four

Chapter Twenty-Five

Chapter Twenty-Six

Chapter Twenty-Seven

Chapter Twenty-Eight

Chapter Twenty-Nine

Chapter Thirty

Chapter Thirty-One

Chapter Thirty-Two

Chapter Thirty-Three

Chapter Thirty-Four

Chapter Thirty-Five

Chapter Thirty-Six

Chapter Thirty-Seven

Chapter Thirty-Eight

Chapter Thirty-Nine

Chapter Forty

Chapter Forty-One

Chapter Forty-Two

Chapter Forty-Three

Chapter Forty-Four

Chapter Forty-Five

Chapter Forty-Six

Chapter Forty-Seven

Chapter Forty-Eight

Chapter Forty-Nine

Chapter Fifty

Chapter Fifty-One

Chapter Fifty-Two

Chapter Fifty-Three

Chapter Fifty-Four

Chapter Fifty-Five

Chapter Fifty-Six

Chapter Fifty-Seven

The Sound of Sirens

One

Two

Three

Four

Five

Six

Seven

Eight

Nine

Ten

Eleven

Twelve

Thirteen

Fourteen

Fifteen

Sixteen

Seventeen

Eighteen

Nineteen

Twenty

Twenty-One

Twenty-Two

Twenty-Three

Twenty-Four

Twenty-Five

Twenty-Six

Twenty-Seven

Twenty-Eight

Twenty-Nine

Thirty

Thirty-One

Thirty-Two

Thirty-Three

Thirty-Four

Thirty-Five

Thirty-Six

Thirty-Seven

Thirty-Eight

Thirty-Nine

Forty

Forty-One

Forty-Two

Forty-Three

Forty-Four

Forty-Five

Forty-Six

Forty-Seven

Forty-Eight

Forty-Nine

Fifty

Fifty-One

Fifty-Two

Fifty-Three

Fifty-Four

Fifty-Five

Fifty-Six

The | Twelfth Apostle

The Twelfth Apostle

One

Two

Three

Four

Five

Six

Seven

Eight

Nine

Ten

Eleven

Twelve

Thirteen

Fourteen

Fifteen

Sixteen

Seventeen

Eighteen

Nineteen

Twenty

Twenty-One

Twenty-Two

Twenty-Three

Twenty-Four

Twenty-Five

Twenty-Six

Twenty-Seven

Twenty-Eight

Twenty-Nine

Thirty

Thirty-One

Thirty-Two

Thirty-Three

Thirty-Four

Thirty-Five

Thirty-Six

Thirty-Seven

Thirty-Eight

Thirty-Nine

Forty

Forty-One

Forty-Two

Forty-Three

Forty-Four

Forty-Five

Forty-Six

Forty-Seven

Forty-Eight

Forty-Nine

Fifty

Fifty-One

Fifty-Two

Fifty-Three

Fifty-Four

Fifty-Five

Fifty-Six

Fifty-Seven

Fifty-Eight

Fifty-Nine

Sixty

Sixty-One

Sixty-Two

Sixty-Three

Sixty-Four

Sixty-Five

Sixty-Six

Sixty-Seven

Sixty-Eight

Sixty-Nine

Seventy

Seventy-One

Seventy-Two

Seventy-Three

Seventy-Four

Seventy-Five

Seventy-Six

Seventy-Seven

Seventy-Eight

Seventy-Nine

Eighty

Eighty-One

Eighty-Two

Eighty-Three

Eighty-Four

Eighty-Five

Eighty-Six

Eighty-Seven

Eighty-Eight

Eighty-Nine

Author’s Note

Kissing a Killer

One

Two

Three

Four

Five

Six

Seven

Eight

Nine

Ten

Eleven

Twelve

Thirteen

Fourteen

Fifteen

Sixteen

Seventeen

Eighteen

Nineteen

Twenty

Twenty-One

Twenty-Two

Twenty-Three

Twenty-Four

Twenty-Five

Twenty-Six

Twenty-Seven

Twenty-Eight

Twenty-Nine

Thirty

Thirty-One

Thirty-Two

Thirty-Three

Thirty-Four

Thirty-Five

Thirty-Six

Thirty-Seven

Thirty-Eight

David’s Notes

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About the Author

 

This book

 is dedicated to the memory

of the late

Cecil Norman Carter

1918-1998

Much medalled D-Day veteran, sailor, signaller, swimmer, rower, grower and father

Much missed

Never Forgotten

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The Murder Diaries Seven Times Over

This book

is dedicated to the memory

of the late

Cecil Norman Carter

1918-1998

Highly medalled sailor, signaller, swimmer,

D-Day Veteran,

rower, grower and father

Much missed

Never Forgotten

By the same author:

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The Murder Diaries - Seven Times Over

The Sound of Sirens

The Twelfth Apostle

Kissing a Killer

The Legal & the Illicit

The Death Broker

Five Dead Rooks

Old Cold Bones

The Walter Darriteau Box Set – One

The Missing Man

Falling

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The Life and Loves of Gringo Greene

The Inconvenient Unborn

Grist Vergette’s Curious Clock

Drift and Badger and the Search for Uncle Mo

Down into the Darkness

The Fish Catcher

The Bunny and the Bear

Chapter One

The orange streetlight bounced from the wet tarmac. 2.30 in the morning. No one about. No traffic, no pedestrians, no wildlife, nothing. The dark car approached the green lights. The driver saw a man coming from the right. He crossed the far lanes to the centre island. The lights turned amber. The driver slowed, coming down from fifth to third. The man glanced at the car and half nodded and set out to cross the road.

In the vehicle, the right designer clad training shoe switched from B to A. Brake to acceleration. The car surged forward. The man heard the engine roar and stopped dead like a fox caught in headlights, frozen in formaldehyde, as if in some sick art exhibition. The man couldn’t believe what he saw. The lights were red; he was sure of it. He tried to move, to jump away. Too late. The bumper smashed into his knees, shattering both. The bonnet crashed into his falling body, breaking ribs, sweeping the guy high into the night. He bounced on the roof, cracking his left arm, somersaulted through the air, and crashed to the pavement.

The driver glanced in the mirrors. An impression of moving black shadows, a black bundle hunched on the pavement, growing ever smaller as the car sped away. The bundle didn’t move.

It would never move again.

DARRITEAU YAWNED LIKE a hippopotamus. Karen glimpsed his tonsils and glanced away.

‘Excuse me,’ mumbled her boss.

‘Don’t mind me,’ she said under her breath.

‘Well, Greenwood?’ he said. ‘Anything new?’

‘Not much. We arrested Gary Jones at Ffrith Caravan Park, but you know that.’

‘Ah yes, Gary Jones,’ the crazy man who had been in and out of borstal and prison for twenty years. Hooligan, drug dealer, burglar, wife beater, scourge of society. At least this time he would be put away for good, but too late for some, and as if Karen was following his train of thought she said: ‘It’s Millie I feel sorry for.’

‘Course,’ said Darriteau, pulling a face, and pondering on how the courts could have handed down one lenient sentence after another.

‘Anyway,’ said Karen, ‘this time it’s open and shut. He’s confessed. His fingerprints are all over the knife.’

‘Mmm,’ said Darriteau, thinking of Millie and her mischievous face, that curly, mousy hair that framed her milk white phizog, those big blue eyes that entranced men so, they certainly entranced Gary Jones. Probably cost her her life. Entrancing partners wasn’t all it was cracked up to be. Millie should still be here, and Darriteau felt responsible for that.

‘Anything else?’ he mumbled, trying hard to sweep the image of her smiling face from his tired brain.

‘Not much. A hit and run on the by-pass.’

‘Oh?’

‘Just waiting for the post mortem.’

Right on cue, Mrs Carney swept into the office. Lobbed a file on the desks.

‘Hit and run?’ she mumbled.

‘Yep,’ said Karen.

Mrs Carney looked down and saw Walter Darriteau nod.

‘Two smashed knees, three broken ribs, broken left arm, and right ankle, but none of that killed him.’

‘So what did?’ asked Karen.

‘Cracked his head on the pavement. No one could survive that. This is the prelim; you’ll have the full report before I go home.’

‘Thank you, Sara,’ mumbled Walter.

Sara Carney pursed her lips, and glanced at the pair of them, bobbed her head and left them to it.

‘So who is he?’ asked Walter.

‘Who was he?’ corrected Karen.

Walter gave his sergeant a