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"Si out of my ears, I’ve had the chairman of the Police Committee inabout an uncontrolled shooting spree in Lafferton Talk to me"

"Well, ma’am, the car park here is stuffed with television vans"

"Sort it We have four dead wo incidents, and not the faintest idea who’s responsible Aht?"

"Pretty ht, under powered when her job as press officer became, as now, more than local routine

"I’ up It’s the baby, sir They all want to run stories about the baby I’ve issued a press release but they’re being quite aggressive"

"Have you got what you gave them?"

Simon scanned it "This tells them what they know and it more or less says we haven’t a clue Co to satisfy them Call a conference for four o’clock I’ll talk to the away and I’ that Get on with it"

Elaine fled

"Sir? I’ve got so He’d had that s look ever since he’d rescued Jamie Doyle from his cot

"Yes?"

"Someone reported apast Bethan Doyle’s door and wobbling because he was going slowly and peering at the house The duty PC noticed him as well Apparently he al"

"Plenty of people doing that Cars slon People walk their dogs past the cri about Voyeurs Gives the Drew Medium build, brown hair, thirties, pale They re Drew, fits half the haot bikes"

"I think I’ll go and talk to hiain"

Simon pushed his hair back fro Drew There was a perfectly likely reason for hi woman had been shot dead He had probably cycled past the Seven Aces club and his own house too, a dozen times It hat people did when they were in shock and a state of disbelief

"We haven’t got anything else, sir"

"Not a good enough reason for pulling in Craig Drew Might as well bring in anybody"

"I think you’re wrong Sir I think we should look at Drew Hard"

"You made that plain the first ti he said"

"What? Nothing?"

Siain Fact: he disliked Grahary at his tactics in the first Drew interview Fact: if there was the faintest chance that Drew had shot Bethan Doyle, in front of her eighteen-ry press pack would sniff it out Fact: the public was alar in"

The DS half nodded

Simon went into the CID roo at her computer screen with a far-off expression and jumped when the boss walked over to her desk

"Found any relatives for Bethan Doyle?"

"Not yet, sir I was just looking again, actually The ex-partner is the only na in a bar in Ibiza--police there have tracked hi to him"

"The little boy …"

"Jamie He’s in care"

"I can’t believe he has absolutely no living relatives apart fro, sir"

"I know Bethan seeirl without family and without friends, did her job, came home, picked him up from nursery and stayed home alone with him Was that it?"

"It appears so"

Sio to her work, go to the boy’s nursery … everyone There has to be someone"

"There was"

"What?"

"Well, there was someone who killed her Or was it random like the others?"

"Were they random?"

"I don’t know, sir"

"Nor do I, Vicky, and it’s drivinga press conference this afternoon I’ve got to give the buggers out there so I want to defuse this We need theo in and out don’t say anything Be polite and carry on I want everyone in the conference roo Cat’s number He went into his room and closed the door

"Where are you?"

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