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  1. Cover
  2. FIND THEM DEAD
  3. Dedication page
  4. Maps
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  22. FOUR MONTHS LATER
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  117. GLOSSARY
  118. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  119. NOW A MAJOR ITV SERIES
  120. I FOLLOW YOU
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  127. DISCOVER THE ROY GRACE BOOKS
  128. FIND THEM DEAD
  129. The Detective Superintendent Roy Grace books in order
  130. Also by Peter James

Pewe narrowed his eyes. ‘Roy, you’ve been the SIO all along on the Crisp case. It’s your responsibility to make sure your prisoner is properly guarded until he is brought to justice and – if there is any justice – sentenced. You’ve failed abjectly. I suggest you buddy up with the Met Police PDQ and recapture the doctor. A man wandering the streets of London in surgical scrubs shouldn’t be too hard to find, even for an incompetent like you.’

Grace bristled at the insult. ‘I’m sorry, sir, I’m not going to take that crap from you.’

‘No? Well, maybe you’ll take this, instead: get Crisp back under lock and key within the next forty-eight hours or I’m reassigning you from Major Crime. We could be looking at suspension here because of the way you are reacting to this.’

Grace responded. ‘This is typical of you. You know you are wrong, so you pull rank, just like a bully.’

Pewe hesitated a moment, mouth opening and closing again as if trying to find the right words. ‘Well, perhaps suspension isn’t appropriate here.’

‘That’s very generous of you,’ Grace retorted. ‘But if you take me off Major Crime – assuming you even have the authority to do that – I would go straight back to the Met in a Commander role, where I have the ear of the Deputy Assistant Commissioner. And my first recommendation to her would be that you are flushed down a fucking toilet into the Thames estuary. But before I do that, I will be sending a full report to the Chief Constable and to the Police and Crime Commissioner on my recommendations to you on how Dr Crisp should have been guarded. And how you rejected them. I wrote them in my Policy Book along with a note about your bullying conduct.’

Pewe winced at Roy’s words, raising a conciliatory hand. ‘Perhaps we are both getting a little bit heated, Roy.’

‘Not me, sir. I’m a cucumber.’

‘Cucumber?’

‘Cool as.’

‘Very well. Look – let’s forget our differences, shall we?’

Grace stared him in the eye, saying nothing.

The ACC blinked first. ‘You and I, we go back a long way.’

Unfortunately, Grace thought.

‘I’ve said it to you before and I’ll say it again now. We may never be best friends. But we have a common purpose, don’t we? To try to make this world a better place.’

Yes, thought Grace, and it would be a much better place without assholes like you.

70

Friday 17 May

In a small interview room in the cell corridor under the courts in Lewes’ Crown Court building, Nick Fox looked at his client. This was the first time the two men had been alone without Primrose Brown or her junior present since Stuie’s death.