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‘Hargate Manor doesn’t exist’

His eyebrows rose ‘Doesn’t exist?’

‘There is no Hargate Manor within fifty miles of this one’s supposed location’

If Debbie said it didn’t exist then it didn’t exist She was the h person Andreas knew

He lookedhis brain trying to remember where he could have met her He usually had an excellent recall for faces but on this occasion he couldn’t put a finger on it She had dark chestnut hair that fell in a neat line to her shoulders and pretty if angular features, a short straight nose, a top lip slightly fuller than the bottom and a cute heart-shaped chin Yes, a pretty face but not one familiar to him

But he had seen those eyes before

Just as he opened hisinto this woman, it suddenly came to him

Digging Journalists did lots of digging

Caroline The extended version of Carrie

Carrie Rivers The journalist sister of his niece’s old best friend

The journalist for the Daily Tial and often seedy practices of rich businessmen

He doubted he would still remember their tenuous association were it not that her ation into James Thomas, an old business acquaintance of his, had revealed Jas, aro, Carrie’s meticulous work had seen James sentenced to fifteen years in prison Andreas had read about the sentencing and silently cheered He hoped he rotted in his cell

With the feeling of a ball bearing pressing down on his guts, Andreas did an Internet search on his phone for her There were no photographs of Carrie online He supposed this wasn’t surprising given the nature of her work