‘What do you mean?’ I asked. Mum pointed to the answering machine in the hall. ‘There’s a message for you on there from Tash. She sounded very excited, said they’ve found Howard. Is he some new boy you’ve got your eye on?’ ‘No. Nothing like that.’ ‘So who is he?’ Hmm. How to explain? Oh Howard, yeah, he’s a corpse, as in six foot under. Not what you want to hear about your daughter’s latest crush. ‘I’ll tell you later, Mum. Let me phone Tash.’ I took the phone from the hall and went into our front room to call her. I didn’t want Mum listening in and then giving me the third degree. ‘Jo, you got my message?’ said Tash when she picked up. ‘Yes. What have you found?’ ‘Dave’s uncle’s been on the case again. It’s amazing. You’re not going to believe it.’ ‘Just tell me Tash.’ ‘Oh, right. Yeah. So, Dave was looking into the census records and he found Henrietta and where she lived!
