Spiking the Girl
“The big 24-hour supermarket in the Kingsgate Centre was convenient and well stocked. Mechanical Christmas carols sounded behind the clash of trolleys and the too-loud announcements about pricing.
Despite the recent attempts to clean up the Cross, the spruikers were already out, trying to drum up business nevertheless. Two of the worst clubs, operating as unlicensed brothels, had not been able to renew their leases and were now boarded up, plastered with advertisements for rock bands, moving...-house sales and singles clubs. Maybe I should take note of that last number, Gemma thought bitterly.
Lugging grocery packages back to her car in the underground parking station, some atavistic sense stirred in her. Badly lit, with dark corners and stains on the ground, the car park revived a memory of the frequently replayed, jerky security footage of a woman who had been the subject of an intense murder investigation caught leaving a car park. She had never been seen again.MoreLess
Despite the recent attempts to clean up the Cross, the spruikers were already out, trying to drum up business nevertheless. Two of the worst clubs, operating as unlicensed brothels, had not been able to renew their leases and were now boarded up, plastered with advertisements for rock bands, moving...-house sales and singles clubs. Maybe I should take note of that last number, Gemma thought bitterly.
Lugging grocery packages back to her car in the underground parking station, some atavistic sense stirred in her. Badly lit, with dark corners and stains on the ground, the car park revived a memory of the frequently replayed, jerky security footage of a woman who had been the subject of an intense murder investigation caught leaving a car park. She had never been seen again.MoreLess
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