Death In Kings Lynn – Jim Kelly

Its principal original attraction had been the rarity of its public telephone in the corridor leading to the loos — a vital link with the outside world before the advent of the mobile phone. Now it had no attractions at all. There were four drab rooms, a tiny bar in a lobby by the door. Its local trade — mainly stall-holders from the town’s two markets — crowded into the front bar. The CID took the larger of the back two, a room dominated by a lithograph of the Guildhall and an old photo of the city walls before they had been demolished to make way for St James’s police HQ.

Shaw always got a thrill walking over the threshold, having spent many childhood evenings sitting outside on the kerb, waiting for his father, bought off with crisps and squash. Its interior had been part of his father’s secret world. Now it was his world. ‘Mark,’ said Shaw, nodding at the door. DC Mark Birley wedged a stool against it.

They were crammed into the room. Pints and alcopops bristled on the table tops. No one was on fruit juice, and everyone would drive home; one of the police force’s abiding ironies. Everyone had a single-sheet briefing note from Twine — all the major developments summarized. Valentine stood, leaning his back against the nicotine-yellow wallpaper, nursing his second pint. Shaw sat on the wide window ledge, his back to the stained-glass picture of the pier at Hunstanton.

He took one sip of Guinness, annoyed to find a shamrock doodled in the white head. ‘Anything we should know that’s not in the note?’ he asked. DC Campbell waved a lime-green bottle of alcopop. ‘MVR — Motor Vehicle Repair. The garage appears completely legit, they don’t issue torches. Staff of thirteen. We’re talking to everyone who was on duty yesterday, nothing yet.’ ‘OK. But we don’t have an alternative, Fiona, so let’s dig deeper. What about the vehicles themselves? All accounted for? Any out over the weekend — that happens.

Nice little sideline. Bit of pocket money. They rent out the hospital vans for forty-eight hours and no one’s the wiser — as long as someone’s fiddling the mileage.

First published by Penguin in Great Britain in 2010 as Death Watch © Jim Kelly 2010, 2026 This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places and events are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental. The spelling used is British English except where fidelity to the author’s rendering of accent or dialect supersedes this.

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