End in Tears (2005)
““The poor girl’s dead, after all,” as the manager said. George Marshalson had been wrong but not far wrong. The sum in Amber’s account had swollen to seventy-five pounds. Nothing had been paid in for over two years and nothing had been drawn out.
“Either she didn’t trust banks,” said Wexford, “or, more likely, she hadn’t yet got around to paying that two thousand in. It must all have come to her very recently.”
“She went to Thailand, but if she was trafficking she wasn’t paid, so it was probabl...y an innocent holiday.”
“You mean, she didn’t deposit whatever she was paid into her bank account. She may have had payment in cash and just spent it. It looks as if she and possibly the friend carried something to Frankfurt—one of the main European hubs, is Frankfurt—and met someone there who carried whatever it was on to its ultimate destination. When she came home she got paid.”
Wexford knew no more about drugs than any police officer in his position who hadn’t specialized in them, but Burden had become an expert, largely through masterminding the big substance-abuse purge carried out in Kingsmarkham and the surrounding villages the year before.MoreLess
“Either she didn’t trust banks,” said Wexford, “or, more likely, she hadn’t yet got around to paying that two thousand in. It must all have come to her very recently.”
“She went to Thailand, but if she was trafficking she wasn’t paid, so it was probabl...y an innocent holiday.”
“You mean, she didn’t deposit whatever she was paid into her bank account. She may have had payment in cash and just spent it. It looks as if she and possibly the friend carried something to Frankfurt—one of the main European hubs, is Frankfurt—and met someone there who carried whatever it was on to its ultimate destination. When she came home she got paid.”
Wexford knew no more about drugs than any police officer in his position who hadn’t specialized in them, but Burden had become an expert, largely through masterminding the big substance-abuse purge carried out in Kingsmarkham and the surrounding villages the year before.MoreLess
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