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She nodded.
We’d overslept too much to get breakfast, but I figured we both could use some caffeine and something to eat. We’d have to get something on the way.
I grabbed my keys and my gun and locked up the flat before catching the lift down to the parking garage beneath the building. I drove a silver, fourth generation Range Rover and loved the vehicle for its dominant driving position and luxurious interior.
We drove across London, Kaja watching out of the window, her mouth open at the sights she must only have seen on television or read about in books before. The circle of the London Eye. The Oxo Tower stretching into the sky. The London Bridge reaching across the Thames.
Traffic was slow going, as always, but I made time to stop off at a café that was doing all-day breakfasts. We drank our fill of coffee, and I watched as Kaja managed to eat as much as I did, wolfing down the plate of bacon, sausage, eggs, beans, and hash browns.
Eventually, we reached Tam and Hallie’s Greenwich home. I pulled up outside the gates, but we must have already been seen as they slowly opened in front of us.
Tam stepped out to greet us, clapping me on the back and smiling at Kaja.
“Welcome,” he said and gestured for us to go in.
He sent us into the living room which already contained a couple of people.
“Hi, Kaja,” Hallie greeted. She introduced the pretty olive-skinned woman at her side. “This is my friend, Layla.”
The two women smiled at each other awkwardly.
“I’ll get everyone drinks,” Hallie offered. “Can you lend me a hand, Kaja? You, too, Layla.”
I thought it was strange that Hallie wasn’t staying, since she was a Cornell, too. She was a few months pregnant, and Tam had been overly protective of her, but it was still unusual for her not to want to know what was going down. It occurred to me that maybe this wasn’t about the drop, and she’d given Tam and me space for a reason.
“What’s so urgent?” I asked my older brother when the women had left the room.
“I need to show you something,” Tam said. “This was sent to the office this morning.”
I frowned and glanced down at Tam’s hand. He held out a folded piece of paper to me. I took it and unfolded it. A letter? No, not a letter, just a note containing only six words.
I know who killed Harvey Cornell.
“What is this?” I asked.
“What does it look like?”
“How did it arrive? Through the post, or did someone deliver it by hand?”
“Through the post, so there’s no chance of catching anyone on the security cameras.”
I glanced back down at it. “What about the postmark? Is there any way of telling where it came from?”
“It was stamped in Finsbury,” Tam said, “but that doesn’t mean anything.”
“Doesn’t it? That’s the Gilligans’ territory.”
“Doesn’t matter. Anyone could have posted it.”
I wasn’t so sure about that. “Can we take it to the police? Maybe they can dust it for prints or get DNA off it or something?”
He lifted both eyebrows. “You really think it’s a good idea to have the police paying more attention to us, especially considering our current import?”
“We have coppers on the books. Can’t they help?”
“It’s one thing swiping or destroying evidence. It’s a whole other thing getting labs involved to process something.”
I thought for a moment, biting my lower lip. “It might not mean anything. Someone out there might just be fucking with us.”
