The Good Partner
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Peter Robinson
One of the world’s most popular and acclaimed writers, Peter Robinson was the bestselling, award-winning author of the DCI Banks series. He also wrote two short-story collections and three stand-alone novels, which combined have sold more than ten million copies around the world. Among his many honors and prizes were the Edgar Award, the CWA (UK) Dagger in the Library Award, and the Swedish Crime Writers’ Academy Martin Beck Award.
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The Good Partner
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Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
About the Author
Also by Peter Robinson
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The Good Partner
1
THE LOWERING SKY was black as a tax inspector’s heart when Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks pulled up outside 17 Oakley Crescent at eight o’clock one mid-November evening. An icy wind whipped up the leaves and set them skittering around his feet as he walked up the path to the glass-paneled door.
Detective Constable Susan Gay was waiting for him inside, and Peter Darby, the police photographer, was busy with his new video recorder. Between the glass coffee table and the brick fireplace lay the woman’s body, blood matting the hair around her left temple. Banks put on his latex gloves, then bent and picked up the object beside her. The bronze plaque read, Eastvale Golf Club, 1991 Tournament. Winner: David Fosse.
There was blood on the base of the trophy. The man Banks assumed to be David Fosse sat on the sofa staring into space.
A pile of photographs lay on the table. Banks picked them up and flipped through them. Each was dated 11/13/93 across the bottom. The first few showed group scenes—red-eyed people eating, drinking and dancing at a banquet of some kind—but the last ones told a different story. Two showed a handsome young man in a navy blue suit, white shirt and garish tie, smiling lecherously at the photographer from behind a glass of whisky. Then the scene shifted to a hotel room, where the man had loosened his tie. None of the other diners were to be seen. In the last picture, he had also taken off his jacket. The date had changed to 11/14/93.
Banks turned to the man on the sofa. Are you David Fosse?
he asked.
There was a pause while the man seemed to return from a great distance. Yes,
he said finally.
Can you identify the victim?
It’s my wife, Kim.
What happened?
I . . . I was out taking the dog for a walk. When I got back I found . . .
He gestured towards the floor.
When did you go out?
Quarter to seven, as usual. I got back about half past and found her like this.
Was your wife in when you left?
Yes.
Was she expecting any visitors?
He shook his head.
Banks held out the photos. Have you seen these?
Fosse turned away and grunted.
Who took them? What do they mean?
Fosse stared at the Axminster.
Mr. Fosse?
I don’t know.
This date, November 13. Last Saturday. Is that significant?
My wife was at a business convention in London last weekend. I assume they’re the pictures she took.
What kind of convention?
"She’s involved in servicing home offices and small businesses. Servicing, he sneered.
Now there’s an apt term."
Banks singled out the man in the gaudy tie. Do you know who this is?
No.
Fosse’s face darkened and both his hands curled into fists. No, but if I ever get hold of him—
Mr. Fosse, did you argue with your wife about the man in these photographs?
Fosse’s mouth dropped.