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Chapters (81)
  1. Cover
  2. About the Author
  3. Dedication
  4. Prologue
  5. One
  6. Two
  7. Three
  8. Four
  9. Five
  10. Six
  11. Seven
  12. Eight
  13. Nine
  14. Ten
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  21. Seventeen
  22. Eighteen
  23. Nineteen
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  27. Twenty-three
  28. Twenty-four
  29. Twenty-five
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  71. Sixty-seven
  72. Epilogue
  73. Acknowledgments
  74. Read More
  75. Prologue
  76. One
  77. Two
  78. Three
  79. Four
  80. Follow Merilyn online
  81. Dedication

She took another breath filled with smoke. ‘So how come they missed it? Because it was there – the court case told us that.’

‘It was the tattoo,’ Bremer replied. ‘They didn’t check it. The analyst should have run it through the database, which he did the next morning, and there was the intel report that described the perp exactly. No name on the report, but the tattoo was a giveaway, so he would have linked the two. And it warned he was known to carry a weapon. A knife.’ He let the words hang there, judging rightly she needed a moment to digest them.

Nell remembered when she’d finally woken up enough to understand why her body was wrapped in bandages, why the dull throb still made its way through the morphine, along with shock and fear.

‘I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have brought it up,’ Bremer said.

Nell shook her head, ‘No, I’m OK.’ She paused. ‘Do you think it affects my ability to do my job? Because if that’s why you mentioned it, it doesn’t. Months of therapy saw to that.’

‘I have no doubt that you are an exemplary officer. I just sensed an issue between you and Carla and I wondered if it had to do with past events. I need to make sure the team runs smoothly, so I’d prefer any issues to be out in the open.’

Nell felt strangely let down that his concern wasn’t for her but for the team as a whole.

‘And I wanted to make sure you were OK,’ he added, reading her expression.

‘Carla wasn’t the analyst that missed it.’

Bremer didn’t reply. Shit. She was going to kill Paul for being right.

‘OK, I get your point. Maybe I was subconsciously –’ she stressed the word, ‘– linking Carla with past events.’ She made tiny quotation marks in the air. ‘I’ll keep a check on it.’

Bremer looked satisfied. ‘I place a lot of emphasis on intelligence-led policing and I’m more than happy to fully include civilians in the team. I don’t want that to be a problem.’

It felt like a question so Nell shook her head. ‘It isn’t. Carla’s a good analyst.’

‘She is. And you’re a good detective.’

‘Then why override me when I said we should keep Kelly-Anne in?’

Bremer’s expression didn’t change. ‘Because I think Eve has a few secrets we don’t know about and I think they relate to Connor’s murder.’ He looked down at her. ‘Maybe Kelly-Anne did help kill her baby. If so, she’ll go down for that. But she’s not a threat to anyone else and I don’t think she was a threat to Connor. Do you?’

Nell had to concede his point. ‘But then which of the other suspects are a better bet?’