Sylvie: Encounter number 4

The notebook

“Come and look at this, Joe.” He didn’t move and Sylvie wasn’t even sure that he had heard her.

“Seriously, Joe. This doesn’t make any sense: the notebook only has blood on the back cover and yet it’s in the photos just after the body was found.

She had his attention now, and Joe wandered across to look at the image on her screen. The small notebook was there on the corner of the desk just a few feet away from where Professor Harmer was slumped in his chair, the gashes in his throat the obvious source of the splashes of red that covered every inch. Except the notebook.