Page 25 of The Impossible Fortune (Thursday Murder Club Mysteries #5)

But, while Suzi might be a psycho, she’s no fool, so that will won’t be in play for long. Long enough for him to get his hands on it maybe. If she changes it before she dies, so be it. If she doesn’t, then win-win.

Finding someone to murder Suzi won’t be easy.

If she dies any time soon, there’s only one suspect, and that’s Danny.

He needs to put lots of layers between himself and the killer, money has to go through lots of different hands, and each of those hands gets to keep a bit of it on the way.

But Danny trusts someone who trusts someone who trusts someone, and Suzi can meet with the sort of accident that might make the police suspicious, but will send them chasing their tails for a few weeks before they get dizzy and stop running.

Jason Ritchie is altogether easier. He’s made so many enemies over the years, been in enough tricky situations, that when he turns up dead the poor police will have pages of suspects to deal with.

Would Danny even be in the first fifty names?

He doubts it. With Jason you can just shoot him from a speeding car, dump the motor at a friendly farm and be sitting down for a pint by lunchtime.

Friendly, sure, but it still pays to be careful.

Danny ducks back into his room and pulls the curtains.

Don’t want word getting out that he’s here.

Suzi and Jason Ritchie will be dead soon enough, but it’s worth remembering that Jason Ritchie will probably kill him first if he finds out where he is.

What a business. There’s nothing like it.