Tosh stepped forward. “We have the rental car logs. We have your phone pinging the same tower as Connor’s burner.”
“The Cairns family farm is three miles from the burn site,” Perez said, ignoring him. “Connor left his father’s house at 10 PM on Tuesday. Said he was going for a drive. His father, John Cairns, didn’t report him missing for forty-eight hours.” shetland s07e02 msv
Prologue: The Hollow
“We found the recording device in the ashes of the car,” Perez lied smoothly. “The metal casing survived. It has your voice on it, Mr. Slater. Telling Connor you’d ‘put his mother in the North Sea’ if he didn’t do one last job.” Tosh stepped forward
John cracked. Not dramatically, but like a hull taking on water. “He came to me two weeks ago. Said he was in trouble. Said he’d been working for a man—a man from the mainland. He wouldn’t tell me the name. Just that they’d promised him a way out. A new life in Norway for him and his mother.” “Connor left his father’s house at 10 PM on Tuesday