We Solve Murders
by Richard Osman
Contents
Chapter 65
Overview
On the flight to Rockgrove, Adam’s call reveals that Courtney Lewis has died in prison before he can speak to her, cutting off a potentially crucial lead. The timing makes Steve, Amy and Rosie suspect that someone connected to Felicity Woollaston may be covering tracks. When Tony denies supplying the Courtney information and says Felicity denies knowing her, the team is left facing the likelihood that Felicity is lying.
Summary
Steve joins Amy and Rosie on a helicopter flight over Ireland, despite having suggested that he stay behind in Dublin. The journey is miserable for Steve, who is violently airsick, while Amy and Rosie remain unfazed and joke about Steve’s suffering.
During the flight, Amy takes a call from Adam. Adam has tried to follow up on information connected to Courtney Lewis, but instead learns that Courtney Lewis was found dead in her Dubai prison cell the previous day. Because Adam had arranged an official prison visit, Steve immediately sees the timing as suspicious: after the team learned about Courtney Lewis through Felicity Woollaston, Courtney Lewis has suddenly died before she could be questioned.
As the helicopter descends toward the vineyard at Rockgrove, Amy urges Steve to call Tony Taylor for more detail. Amy and Rosie both focus on the same concern: they need to know exactly what Felicity Woollaston knows, and whether she has shared that knowledge with anyone else. The possibility that a key witness has been silenced raises the stakes around Felicity’s role in the wider scheme.
Once they land, Steve phones Tony. Tony says he is walking in the forest with Felicity, then checks with her and reports that Felicity claims she has never heard of Courtney Lewis. Tony also insists that the information did not come from him. That leaves Steve and Amy with a troubling conclusion: either an unlikely unknown source in Axley supplied the information, or Felicity Woollaston has lied both to Tony and to them. With that suspicion hanging over them, Rosie pushes the group onward toward the winery to question someone about the man nailed to the tree.
Who Appears
- Steve WheelerEndures a miserable helicopter ride, then calls Tony and concludes Felicity may be lying.
- AmyTakes Adam’s call about Courtney Lewis’s death and presses Steve to verify Felicity’s knowledge.
- RosieKeeps the group focused, jokes through the flight, and pushes them toward the winery interview.
- AdamPhones from Dubai with the news that Courtney Lewis died before he could see her.
- Tony TaylorTells Steve he did not provide the Courtney Lewis information and relays Felicity’s denial.
- Felicity WoollastonClaims through Tony that she has never heard of Courtney Lewis, increasing suspicion around her.
- Courtney LewisKey lead in Dubai whose death in prison removes a potentially important source of information.