Niall Reakes seemed a lot less panicked than he had during their last interview. It seemed, to Jonah, that he was expecting Dina to have backed him up. That this would all be cleared up shortly. He even smiled when Jonah apologised for the delay.

Daniella Hart, next to him, was all cool self-possession. She watched him with a faint hint of a smile, and Jonah returned it. He remembered this from the last time he’d met her. This slightly mocking air. He felt tempted to tell her he was immune to it now. He’d spent the last four months dating someone who mocked him incessantly.

Jonah decided to keep things friendly during the preamble, allowing Niall to remain confident that everything was running smoothly. And then, once the interview had officially started, he said very calmly, ‘So, we’ve now spoken to your ex-wife about the meeting at Gatwick on Friday night. Dina denies having met you at any time in the last few months.’

There was a momentary pause, and then Niall gave a short, almost explosive laugh. ‘Sorry?’

‘Dina Weyman has denied that you were with her on Friday night,’ Jonah repeated. ‘She said you asked to meet, and then stood her up.’

‘We’d like to know where you really were,’ O’Malley said.

Niall shot a glance of desperation towards his solicitor, who leaned to murmur rapidly in his ear. But Niall shook his head, violently.

‘I did meet her! What the hell is she …? Look.’ Niall leaned forwards and clenched his fist on the tabletop. ‘I don’t know what she’s trying to do, but I bloody met her.’

‘Why would she tell us she didn’t?’ O’Malley asked, conversationally. ‘It seems like a strange thing to do.’

Niall looked between them, his jaw visibly tightening. ‘You can’t … This is what she does.’ He shook his head, and Jonah could see a shake running through him now. ‘She plays games. I don’t even know why she’s saying it, but …’ He tailed off, and Jonah watched, in satisfaction, as some thought occurred to Niall.

‘I think you know exactly why she’d do that,’ Jonah said.

‘Asking my client to speculate on the motivations of his ex-wife seems counterproductive when you are able to ask her these questions yourself,’ Daniella Hart said.

‘It’s never counterproductive to respond to someone’s expression,’ Jonah replied, smiling. ‘That’s just good police work.’

Niall started to shake his head, and then laid his hands flat on the table, as if trying to control the situation and himself.

‘What about your little jaunt over to Zurich?’ O’Malley asked. ‘Why didn’t you fly home from Geneva? There were flights available, and they were a lot cheaper. You could have been home for dinner.’

Jonah watched Niall carefully, and was fairly sure that he lost a little colour just then.

‘Were you on your way to buy something?’ Jonah asked.