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Authors: Rebecca Tope
Tags: #General, #Mystery & Detective, #Fiction, #Crime
A Grave in the Cotswolds (34 page)
Karen never asked for details about my Broad Campden experience. I abandoned the blood-soaked clothes and never told her where they’d gone. I did tell her I would have to give testimony in a murder trial, at some future stage, but not for several months. Then I carefully broke the news that I had inherited a house, with some very stringent conditions attached.
It showed how changed she was, the way she failed to grasp the implications. Her headaches were becoming more severe and more frequent, and we had an appointment for a brain scan within a few days. ‘We can’t move house, though, can we?’ she said, her expression bland and open. ‘The children wouldn’t like that.’
I thought of the wide fields and the footpaths and the lovely Cotswold buildings, and wondered. On the face of it, Somerset had just as much natural freedom as did Broad Campden, but the roads were bigger and faster, the crime rate was increasing, and the weather turning wetter. If Maggs could take charge of the burial ground, I thought a move might just work out. I could not shake myself free of Greta Simmonds and Jeremy Talbot and the story I had blundered into.
‘We’ll have to see, then, won’t we,’ I said.
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