Free Who Killed Jimbo Jameson? by Kerrie McNamara Page B

liked Honolulu.” She leant even closer to Jack.
    â€œOh, but you should go there, Jack. We rented a convertible and drove all around the island. And I just loved Lahaina. That’s on Maui. It’s not quite as full-on as Honolulu and there’s thisamazing volcano where you watch the sun come up and it’s freezing cold in the middle of summer.” Again, she batted her eyelashes and let him have it with a 200-watt smile.
    â€œSo, let me think, where are we?” She reached for her glass of wine and sat back, moving yet again ever so slightly closer to Constable Jack. Sneaky bitch.
    â€œOh yes, then he started to buy and sell houses and Lynnette made a big deal about decorating them and then he bought the hotel in Melbourne and got involved with the one who killed herself. What was her name? She took a running leap off The Gap in front of a busload of Japanese tourists.”
    I jumped into the conversation. “Jeez, yes, I remember that one. That was when I first joined the Force and was working at Rose Bay station. We had a hell of a time trying to round them all up to get their statements.” Jack looked at me for a change.
    â€œThat was Amber Foster,” I said. “The comedians had a ball with her name, but that case was a nightmare. Her parents were absolutely furious and blamed him and wanted us to charge him for murdering her. But we had something like twenty-six videos of her actually jumping and a busload of witnesses and he was far, far away in Perth when it happened. Yes, I have no doubt that he drove her nuts and she jumped because of him, but he didn’t push her and there wasn’t anything we could do. It was suicide, no matter what the parents thought.”
    â€œPerhaps we should add the parents to the list? They certainly have a motive. Perhaps they hired someone to bump him off,” suggested Constable Jack.
    Boo was warming up and had no intention of letting Jack’s attention stay on me.
    â€œUm…I’m trying to remember when he married Anna, because they were together for the longest and she had three kids with him and she makes such a big thing about being Supermum and she had a television show about babies or something for about five minutes. But you never really saw the kids and I heard there were three nannies and a spare and a driver and I heard that she was really mean to them and they even had to work on Christmas Day, but they had to vanish whenever the photographers were around.” She took a breath, another sip, and went on. “My Chatswood salon manager was working in Jimbo’s office then and she said that Anna was always phoning his secretary asking where he was and no-one was allowed to tell. He would disappear for months and Anna would go off her brain and everyone would hide and not return her calls. They felt terrible, but what could they do? If they told, they’d be fired. Anddo you think that Anna would have rewarded them for telling them the truth?
    â€œWhen they got a divorce she really cleaned him out, and now she has a South African diamond miner on the hook – sorry, I meant to say a South African who owns a diamond mine – but even he might not have enough to satisfy her.” Jack topped up her glass, and somehow they were sitting even closer. She stroked the stem of the wine glass between her forefinger and thumb and looked so ingenuous but I knew what she was doing. Jack was transfixed by the movement of her fingers, but she was all cutesy-fluffy innocence.
    â€œAnd then what happened? Oh, yes. Jimbo met Jacqueline and she was different from everyone else. She just ignored him and played hard to get, which was a real change for him because he was used to women falling onto their backs when he whistled.
    â€œShe wouldn’t live with him and they broke up a few times but eventually she gave in and married him. Or did he give in and marry her? Who knows? I reckon she gave him an ultimatum