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Chapters (73)
  1. Rabbit Hole
  2. Also by Mark Billingham
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Epigraph
  7. Preface
  8. PART ONE
  9. ONE
  10. TWO
  11. THREE
  12. FOUR
  13. FIVE
  14. SIX
  15. SEVEN
  16. EIGHT
  17. NINE
  18. TEN
  19. ELEVEN
  20. TWELVE
  21. THIRTEEN
  22. FOURTEEN
  23. FIFTEEN
  24. SIXTEEN
  25. SEVENTEEN
  26. EIGHTEEN
  27. NINETEEN
  28. TWENTY
  29. TWENTY-ONE
  30. TWENTY-TWO
  31. TWENTY-THREE
  32. TWENTY-FOUR
  33. TWENTY-FIVE
  34. TWENTY-SIX
  35. TWENTY-SEVEN
  36. TWENTY-EIGHT
  37. TWENTY-NINE
  38. THIRTY
  39. THIRTY-ONE
  40. THIRTY-TWO
  41. THIRTY-THREE
  42. PART TWO
  43. THIRTY-FOUR
  44. THIRTY-FIVE
  45. THIRTY-SIX
  46. THIRTY-SEVEN
  47. THIRTY-EIGHT
  48. THIRTY-NINE
  49. FORTY
  50. FORTY-ONE
  51. FORTY-TWO
  52. FORTY-THREE
  53. FORTY-FOUR
  54. FORTY-FIVE
  55. FORTY-SIX
  56. FORTY-SEVEN
  57. FORTY-EIGHT
  58. FORTY-NINE
  59. FIFTY
  60. FIFTY-ONE
  61. FIFTY-TWO
  62. FIFTY-THREE
  63. FIFTY-FOUR
  64. FIFTY-FIVE
  65. FIFTY-SIX
  66. FIFTY-SEVEN
  67. FIFTY-EIGHT
  68. PART THREE
  69. FIFTY-NINE
  70. SIXTY
  71. EPILOGUE
  72. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  73. Back Cover

I said there’s nothing of her, right? She’s properly tiny, like her clothes would fit a ten-year-old, so I do wonder if maybe she had her own issues with food once upon a time, because she’s always picking at something grainy-looking in a Tupperware container. I mean, apparently a lot of people working in mental health used to be patients, so I wouldn’t be surprised. Poacher turned gamekeeper sort of thing. It’s funny, because the only person she’s ever remotely spiky with is Donna, so maybe she’s a bit freaked out dealing with someone who’s got the same problems she had. Once, she gave Donna a major telling-off about something and ever since then Donna’s called her Femi-Nazi, which would be a pretty nifty UFC nickname now I think about it.

Marcus versus Femi. Result: controversial, but I’m going with Femi for this one. I’m not sure Marcus has got a lot of fight in him and I think Femi could take care of herself if she had to.

So, a few fight-night facts about the men and women who take care of us and perhaps a bit of creative ‘embroidery’, but you get the picture. Full disclosure, I should probably mention that one of the members of staff stepping into my imaginary UFC ring almost certainly sexually assaulted me. Right, ‘almost certainly’ . . . makes it sound a bit vague, but I’m as sure as I can be, taking into account the issues with memory and medication. I’m not going to say who it was because I really don’t like to think about it very much, but if they did it to me, you can bet they’ve done it to others.

L-Plate told me the same thing had happened to her once, at a different hospital. She told me that she’d made a complaint, but that she’d just been called a drama queen.

‘Best to keep your head down,’ she’d said. Crying in my arms she was at the time. ‘Don’t make waves.’

Obviously, as a copper, I want to see people who do this kind of thing get what’s coming to them, because that’s my job, but I also know that, things being the way they are – me being where I am – I need to steer clear of trouble. Believe me, it goes against the grain, but it’s a little easier to come to terms with now I’m smack in the middle of a murder case.

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