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‘Wasn’t Guy Fawkes a terrorist?’ asked a tall thin officer with a boyish face who had both hands tucked under his stab vest

‘Do you want a warning?’ snapped Yale ‘Now get this out of here!’

They turned the trolley and sloped off, the tall officer , ‘Guy Fawkes tried to blow up the Houses of Parlia to keep a straight face

‘Is it?’ he snapped

‘Isn’t it?’

‘No It bloody isn’t Jason Tyler’s legal tea back on a deal to reveal the location of computer records unless we press for a recommended suspended sentence’

’Bloody hell’

‘I know Fucking drug dealers…’

Erika wanted to reotiate with drug dealers, but she didn’t He shook his head and went off down the corridor

She took the stairs up to the incident room on the top floor She was impressed to see that much of her team were already in It was a Friday, and she was conscious that it was noeeks since they had discovered Jessica’s body, and that they had been working flat out for seven days Phones rang and nearly every desk was full DC Knight was updating a corner of the whiteboard containing all the infor, Boss, can I have a word?’ asked Peterson, ju her on the way to her glass office He followed her in shoving a piece of a doughnut in his ulp of coffee She put her bag on the desk noticing another pile of case files had been prepared for her ‘I’ve had Laura Collins on the phone for the fifth ti arrange froht he’d have been in touch about this Chase him up, don’t rush hio back to Spain… is there any reason he shouldn’t?’

Erika sat at her desk

‘Well, no, but I thought he’d be staying here? I’d told the a funeral’

‘You think there’s so soh Find out if he can give us a date when he’s coe an appeal with the family See what he says’

Peterson nodded Erika went on to tell hireed it was a good idea John appeared at the door

‘Just the person,’ said Erika ‘Can you put out some feelers, I want to meet with Trevor Marksh, I don’t want the press finding out we’re talking to hi to see you because we’ve had a call from the secretary of an Oscar Browne QC He wants toon, is this Laura Collins’s ex-boyfriend?’

‘Yeah’

‘Why is he calling me?’