The Dungeon House (Lake District Mysteries)
“One beefy hand held a mug of strong coffee, the other a half-eaten Cumberland sausage in a bap, dripping brown sauce on to the tiled floor of the cafeteria. He curled his lip at the sight of Hannah’s lentil soup and Maggie’s tuna rice salad.‘Don’t tell me, let me guess,’ Hannah said. ‘New research has revealed that meat eaters’ life expectancy is longer than previously thought. They are now expected to survive until their sixtieth birthday.’‘You’re a cruel and heartless woman, DCI Scarlett.’ Le...s was just three weeks away from his sixtieth. ‘Don’t worry about me. I’m a born survivor.’True enough, Hannah supposed. It wasn’t merely that, years after retiring from West Yorkshire Police, and despite occasional health scares, Les still worked as hard as detectives half his age. He was on contract as a consultant to Cumbria’s Cold Case Review Team, and somehow his post had survived the scything-down of jobs conducted by the grim reapers of Finance and HR. To everyone’s surprise, he hadn’t even committed career suicide by saying something utterly inappropriate when Hannah and her team were summoned to a photo opportunity with the Police and Crime Commissioner.‘You’d be amazed how much fitter I feel since I went on the veggie detox.’ Her aim was to show solidarity with her friend and colleague Fern Larter, after Fern was placed on a strict diet following a diagnosis of hypertension.MoreLess
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