‘Could you describe Alec Sinclair?’ Joe was starting to feel his way towards a solution. If Alec Sinclair was the man in the restaurant, that might explain Gus Sinclair’s reluctance to help the police when Rebecca Murray disappeared. ‘Obese. Unfit. A heart attack waiting to happen.’ Joe thought that fitted the description of the man Elaine had given to Vera. Another image flitted into his mind: his boss. He thought it was also a description of Vera herself.
