The
village of Oakvale-On-Roe is in
the north of the relatively small English county of Downshire, situated between
the old market Town of
Nettlebridge,
and their more affluent neighbour Roespring, and in the affluent Shepherds Row
area of the village was the 8 bedroom home of Dominic Mackay in which he now
lived alone since his estranged wife Aurora and his son and daughter, Sebastian
and Camilia left, and divorce proceedings had begun.
He did however have a live in housekeeper, Kitty
Shepherd and a secretary, Erin Hope, who worked in the house Monday to Friday
and occasionally on a Saturday when the need arose, and as a result of the
divorce, Solicitor Addison Smillie was also a regular visitor to the house, as
he was having her draw up a new will disinheriting his soon to be ex-wife and
his selfish self-obsessed son and daughter.
However, one Monday afternoon at the beginning of
August when he had failed to appear for lunch his housekeeper Kitty Shepherd
found him dead in his bed with his throat cut.
PC Ross Grant was the
first on scene as he lived on a farm close to the village, and he was a
congregant at St Nicholas Church.
He made all the
appropriate calls to get things rolling and managed the scene until Detective
Inspector Steve Cutler and Detective Sergeant Steph Baldwin arrived from Nettlebridge.
DI Steve Cutler had just turned forty and had been widowed five
years earlier and his short sandy hair was greying at the temples, and there
was sadness in his blue eyes, losing his wife almost broke him and he hadn’t
had a relationship since.
But he didn’t want for offers, standing six feet
tall, athletically built, a few pounds over his perfect weight, but it was
clear he still kept himself fit.
“Who found the body?” DI Cutler asked as they
stood in the dead man’s bedroom watching the SOCO’s doing their thing.
“The housekeeper, Mrs Shepherd” PC Grant replied
“She’s in the kitchen, with the Curate, Toby Bishop”
“I’ll go and get her
statement,” Steph Baldwin said “I know them both”
“Ok” the Inspector
agreed
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