Chapter 15
The police crime scene investigation unit set up under floodlights, with much tutting and muttering about the number of people who had trampled the area where Laura had last been seen. Sannie did not hold out much hope that they would discover anything useful.
She decided to drive to Kaya Nghala Lodge. Sean Bourke travelled with her and made a couple of calls to try to ascertain the whereabouts of Julianne Clyde-Smith’s relief helicopter pilot. He ended a call.
‘That was Alison Byrne,’ he said to Sannie, ‘Julianne’s super-efficient lodge manager. She says Mike flew to Nelspruit this morning, to the local airfield there, where some avionics guy was going to fix his radio, which wasn’t working properly. He returned this afternoon, as we saw, then picked up my dog, Benny, from m
