1 The Cuckoo's Calling

“You’re telling me Deeby Macc knows where Tansy Bestigui was when Lula
Landry died?”
“No, of course he bloody doesn’t, he was in Barrack. I want to know what
clothes he got sent on from Kentigern Gardens to Claridges. Specifically, what
stuff he got from Guy Somé.”
Strike did not pronounce the name Ghee for Wardle.
“You want…why?”
“Because one of the runners on that CCTV footage was wearing one of
Deeby’s sweatshirts.”
Wardle’s expression, arrested for a moment, relapsed into exasperation.
“You see that stuff everywhere,” he said after a moment or two. “That GS
stuff. Shell suits. Trackies.”
“This was a customized hoodie, there was only one of them in the world. Call
Deeby, and ask him what he got from Somé. That’s all I need. Whose side d’you
want to be on if it turns out I’m right, Wardle?”
“Don’t threaten me, Strike…”
“I’m not threatening you. I’m thinking about a multiple murderer who’s
walking around out there planning the next one—but if it’s the papers you’re
worried about, I don’t think they’re going to go too easy on anyone who clung to
the suicide theory once another body surfaced. Call Deeby Macc, Wardle, before
someone else gets killed.”