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‘On what?’

‘The type of casket, conditions of burial Soood condition after any lead-lined caskets often slow progress of decay The cheaper coffins will erode away, leaving the body at theof digging so back a bowl of roasted almonds

‘I don’t know Possibly I’d have to justify it, obviously I’d be looking to prove the cause of death’ Erika took a handful and popped the the crunch and the sea salt

‘Wasn’t the cause of death proved?’

‘It was, but this is a slippery case I think it rongly identified as suicide I have a suspect who died twenty-six years ago… his cause of death was down as suicide, but his sister says it was a surprise that he took his own life’

‘If it involved poison or broken bones, then traces can re fa himself, that was the docu to be o on for that after all this tians If the neck was broken I would still be able to see that’

‘Okay’

‘Just re anyone, especially after all this time needs to be justified in court, not just on a hunch… And on a co dessert?’

‘I always eat dessert That;s the only thing I’hed

‘Good, I s, and I’ve been dieting all week,’ he said

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Erika took the stairs two at a tiing file of notes, and checked for the fifth ti in order

It was early afternoon on MondayIt was now more than teeks since Jessica Collins had been discovered, and she now had to go into a ress report

As she cah the double doors and into the corridor, she

‘Erika, you’re looking s in her black suit ‘The cavalry are waiting; Commander Marsh, Assistant Commissioner Brace-Cosworthy and the media liaison with the twitchy eyes…’

‘… Colleen Scanlan I’m sorry they’ve thrown you out of your office, sir, but Coo, to say the Assistant Commissioner wanted to be briefed’

‘Not too hot here is it? You’ve got sweat on your top lip,’ he said She wiped it away and went torounded up this afternoon We leaned on hiiven us intel on six of his associates, plus access to the Paypal accounts they’ve been using Looks like we’re going to clean up!’