‘I thought she was never going to shut up about Boris’.

‘Boris Johnson?’

DCI May laughed.

‘No. Boris the cat!’

WPC Ellis laughed as she brought coffee and biscuits for the ‘inner cabinet’ as the office called May, Trubshaw and Riggs. It was a morning ritual for the three detectives; the communal eating and drinking somehow got the case conferences going and Wednesday morning, 8 May 2019 was one of those days when stimulation was required. It was a week since the discovery of Rhys Williams’ body and the progress had been limited. Two hands had been found, but there was no body to go with them. Then Peter Smith had gone missing. But as Donald May always said, ‘each day brings a new opportunity; we just have to make the most o...

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