The Sad Man (14 page)
Authors: P.D. Viner
Christ, even at eight years old, she had done something to him. Danielle Lancing, the girl he loved. Loves.
As memories of her flit through his mind he feels a shiver run through him as if somebody is dancing on his grave. But it’s just the vibration of his mobile on silent. He pulls it out and reads the short message, a missing person report. Normally he wouldn’t be notified unless it was a high-profile victim. This isn’t, just a Durham businessman who’d been reported missing by his wife. But the name is
one that he’d recently added to a high-security alert list: Duncan Cobhurn. And the memory slots into place – the woman he thought he saw in the swirling snow on the bridge, Patricia Lancing. Dani’s mother. He feels lost.
‘Christ.’
He turns to head back the way he’s come. He begins to run.
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