The Girl in the Ice (Detective Erika Foster, #1)
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Read between July 21 - July 24, 2021
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‘I’m Detective Moss.
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Heh, my surname
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Forest Hill,’
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About 5 min walk away, if that
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She was going to check out
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Little silly, irl I don’t think she’d do that
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had gone, leaving half-full pints.
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Not a good sign & why she shouldn’t be there by herself
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why
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Wild stab in the dark, sex trafficking
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It spanned 217 pages, almost nine years,
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Not exactly prolific then
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villa in Dubrovnik, Croatia.
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Mixing work & play?
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was consensual?’
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Is she dumb? Non consensual would be, well let’s just say painful & leave it there.
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A strange pair of little pointed ankle boots,
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Oh that reminds me of someone way wayyyyy back in the day
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Erika had never quite mastered how to talk to children. Rapists and murderers she could deal with, but children she found a little intimidating.
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I think it’s because we know kids have absolutely no filter so there’s always the chance of saying the wrong thing!
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That life, with the cosy husband and kids, had been within her grasp.
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Now it was gone forever.
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The figure smiled.
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Sister?
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Blood roared in her head and nausea and panic rose in her. She was dying. She was going to die alone.
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Well, that brings back happy memories of my subdural haematoma, although I do have the scar to remind me of it so don’t need any extra sources.
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suit up and shut up.’
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Bravo!
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I’m saying it’s the sister, jealous as hell and got in with the wrong ppl, sex trafficking?
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Chief Superintendent Marsh;
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I don’t get how one minute they’re super friendly and the next he’s treating her like anyone else, you’d think there’d be a little more forgiveness.
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It was thick and looked expensive.
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Ding, how many ppl use expensive printer paper? …
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just might, have asked for it.
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No one asks to die or be assaulted.
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The whole encounter was cold and clinical,
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It’s a blood test, that’s exactly what they are, cold and clinical.
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An iPod glowed in a Bose sound system.
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Ditto, except mines all WiFi
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said Moss
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Never thought I’d see my name in print, and so often, even if it’s not ‘real’ print.
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When you lose someone, not only are they gone, but everyone around you doesn’t want to talk about them. It drives me slightly crazy. It’s like he’s been deleted
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So true
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cunt.
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Don’t think it was called for, there’s better words, bitch would of done.
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grab the downpipe, hook one leg up to
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Pretty flexible for her
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Had she taken them from the bathroom cabinet?
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I don’t think this is the kind of thing you forget doing!
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‘It wasn’t a he, it was a she,’
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Ding
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but a bulky figure could be seen in a
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Dong
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the old woman,
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Why am I thinking she may be no good?…
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‘Little carnival circus folk
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Trifecta, my Dads real parents/family were/are carnival people, never met them, never want to, but it’s funny 3 things now in this book, Moss (my surname) Forest Hill (5 minutes walk away) and now carny people.
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You look like you’re about to go out clubbing in the late 1990s.’
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Guilty
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Why had he been taken, when she was spared?
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I ask myself the same thing, not about a guy, about a friend.
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Diana,
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I’m wondering if it may be her, I’m semi scratching the sister off the list because of the cat & it’s not the brother and I doubt it’s the father either, but the mother ….. oh and the old ladies still in the running too
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Erika refused to call them prostitutes.
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If the cap fits …
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‘Okay,’
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No way in hell!
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people who’d lived life free, not in a cage, that’s what she said . . . I said her cage was gilded, but she didn’t get that. I don’t think she knew what the word “gilded” meant.’
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A gilded cage, is still a cage
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Do you know how hard it is to be a stranger, to have a new identity?
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Yes, of sorts :|
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‘When I gave birth to her, she was starved of oxygen. She
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Me too, meaning I was born with the cord tied around my neck
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he didn’t kill Andrea, or
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My money is on mommy dearest
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New Zealand.’
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Ding. Guess where I live !
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And this wasn’t a sworn deposition,’
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A deathbed confession is counted as legally true.
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You are all connected.
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Funny, and I think it’s the one person they’re not talking too, who probably came from nothing to having everything, but is everything ever really enough?
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She’s cat crazy, but she doesn’t have a cat
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So am I, and I don’t either, never will now, one more thing this bloody disease has taken from me
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A blackbird landed on the smooth grass, but seeing Erika move inside, it took flight.
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Mine do the opposite, wanting food.
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My darling boy, Boots, and me.
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She wouldn’t of hurt Giles cat, which means she’s not the mystery ‘figure’
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Linda’s
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I wonder who her father is? Could be utterly wrong, but the fact she’s unlike everyone else …
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‘BECAUSE
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Well I think all my suspects are *poof*
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closed the boot, and locked it.
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Modern car boots usually have an interior boot opener, they also have handy things like lug wrenches etc which can cause some damage, to the car or a person, you can also kick out the license plate and put some type of SOS through it. And yes, I overthink things.
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was on a ventilator.
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Been there, done it, got the scar to show for it