Just Desserts
“The meeting with the District Crime Squad shouldn’t take more than an hour. And the one with the National Paedophile Unit had been cancelled because they had a big secret operation planned for today.
He could spend the morning tidying up the paperwork which he hoped would persuade the Crown Prosecution Service that a GBH case was worth taking to court. With a little luck, he might get away early in the afternoon for nine holes of golf at the Ross-on-Wye club. It was bitterly cold, but a weak su...n was struggling to rise over the Malvern Hills as he drove towards the police station at Oldford; perhaps the frost would be gone by lunchtime.
The news of the violent death at Soutters Restaurant in Newent was waiting for him when he reached his desk at eight fifteen on the morning of Thursday, the fourteenth of December. He sighed automatically as the prospect of golf vanished more swiftly than the winter sun. But regret was overtaken within seconds by a sharper feeling: excitement.
Every successful CID man must have a strain of the hunter strong within him.MoreLess
He could spend the morning tidying up the paperwork which he hoped would persuade the Crown Prosecution Service that a GBH case was worth taking to court. With a little luck, he might get away early in the afternoon for nine holes of golf at the Ross-on-Wye club. It was bitterly cold, but a weak su...n was struggling to rise over the Malvern Hills as he drove towards the police station at Oldford; perhaps the frost would be gone by lunchtime.
The news of the violent death at Soutters Restaurant in Newent was waiting for him when he reached his desk at eight fifteen on the morning of Thursday, the fourteenth of December. He sighed automatically as the prospect of golf vanished more swiftly than the winter sun. But regret was overtaken within seconds by a sharper feeling: excitement.
Every successful CID man must have a strain of the hunter strong within him.MoreLess
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