Fifteen of them stood in a line in the muddy light of the drawing room. Fifteen desolate specimens of humanity clad in grimy, beige sweatshirts and stained jogging bottoms. Fifteen of them with their hands [more…]
Chapter 35 – Angela and Moira’s Stories She was asleep when her phone started ringing, her mobile that very few people knew her number. Angela groaned and fumbled for her glasses and then the phone [more…]
Steve walks wearily to his recently rented sofa from Amazon Global and noisily flops down on it with a heavy sigh. Amazon Global’s airborne package guarded by their fleet of lightly armed defence drones, dropped [more…]
Chapter 34 – The Burning Man Daz received news from Moira’s father that would drive him mad with jealousy and the awful feelings of rejection. One day in work he was driving Frank Tremain to [more…]
Chapter 33 – The Detective’s story Detective Inspector Hope’s mobile phone woke him up. It was still dark outside the hotel room’s partially open curtains. He groped for the phone and noticed the time was [more…]
Chapter 32 – The Detective’s story Detective Inspector Hope couldn’t park at Banbury Police Station and had to leave his car in a nearby multi-storey car park. The police station was a modern 1980s building [more…]
Chapter 31 – The Detective’s story Detective Inspector Charles Hope made his way up to the Major Investigation Team’s offices, on the second floor of the Headquarters of the Thames Valley Police at Kidlington in [more…]
Chapter 30 – Goodbye, Mark Edge In April Edge was discharged from the hospital in Faro and referred to a local hospital for ongoing physiotherapy. He made a remarkable recovery due to his fitness, determination [more…]
Chapter 29 – Morrison’s Story “People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.” Morrison came down to breakfast and looked at the offerings [more…]
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