Jo Skinner

Inheritance

She sat at the kitchen table slowly sipping her freshly brewed coffee, her fingers flicking through the pages of the little black book once again. She had received it as part of her inheritance from her grandmother, £20,000 and this blank book. The leather cover was cracked and peeling like old skin, but there was nothing else of significance about the book apart from the fact that her grandmother had been seen with it not long before she had disappeared in mysterious circumstances. The police had no leads and years later they made the decision to close the case, assuming she must have died, and her body lost or taken.