The Body in the Marsh (DCI Craig Gillard #1)

by Nick Louth

pool…’ While Kincaid and Irujo were given the full buyers’ tour, Gillard sat in a shady corner, flicking through the bundles of documents. Unlike his boss, he was far from convinced mistakes in the legal technicalities of sale were an irrelevant detail in the murder of Liz Knight. A £4 million investment was an obvious motive for murder. If the money had been siphoned off somehow, that could explain everything. He decided to phone Oliver Knight for help. He was a conveyancing solicitor, after all, and had claimed to have checked the documents. Oliver’s reaction was chilly and defensive. After 15 minutes of trying to read parts of documents to each other, Gillard could see he was getting nowhere. ‘Okay, Oliver, we’ll obviously have to wait for the originals from the Spanish land registry. But I’ll tell you this. The agent who sold the place you think you bought says he knows the owners, a Mr and Mrs Van der Hoeven from Utrecht in Holland. It has their furniture and books in,