Life Sentence (2013)
“Swanning round like Lady Muck, just because you’re shagging the boss.’How the hell had the new Detective Chief Superintendent got hold of that? He’d only been in the building half an hour? Fran was so angry she dared say nothing, not until she’d taken another breath and stepped back a pace.‘You wanted out,’ Henson continued, ‘so you can get out. Get back to your dead case. OK?’She thought the veins on his forehead would burst, they bulged so fiercely, auguring a stroke or heart attack. And he w...as how old? Forty-five at most, but a totally unreconstructed officer, complete with beergut. Where had they dug him out from? In today’s police, there were finer, fitter officers ready to leap out of the woodwork when you tapped it. She replied, so quietly that all the interested ears – and there were many – in the Incident Room had to strain to hear, ‘Chief Superintendent, I believe you were unavailable this weekend, when there was an emergency. I can’t think of a better reason for me to return to what was my job for some seven years.MoreLess
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