‘Right, I’ve got to go in. Happened half an hour ago. Quinn stepped out of his car to go into his converted ranch thing in Kinnear Road and bang. Place is going fucking mental.’ ‘Retaliation for Caldwell?’ ‘Maybe. Seems the obvious thing. Need to go see what they are saying. Love you and leave yo...
She could easily pick out the spot by the White Lady where Hannah Healey’s mutilated body was found. How many times a day, she wondered, did the poor girl’s mother have to stare out onto the same view? Would she ever be able to stop herself from doing so?The view east over the city was as bleak a...
officials were not alone in seeing the value of requiring aliens to have passports and visas in peacetime; foreign governments made the same demand of U.S. citizens. Therefore, when the number of U.S. citizens traveling abroad dramatically increased in the 1920s, so did the number of citizens who...
28 September 2009. Page 2. By Keith Imrie. A photograph of the crime scene. Police have launched a murder hunt after the body of a known criminal was found in wasteland in the Baillieston area of Glasgow after a suspected gangland slaying. Thomas Tierney was brutally stabbed to death shortly befo...
The huge lump that had suddenly formed in my throat left no room for words.‘Are you okay, Mr Callum? You seem shocked. Should I get you some water, perhaps?’‘What? No, I’m . . . I’m fine. Is that all you have to say?’Tunheim smiled as he took off his glasses and wiped them clean, prolonging the m...
The building was on a busy interchange and traffic had ground to a halt thanks to the cop cars and ambulance that were taking up part of the road. Tough shit, she thought. You’ll get to wherever you’re going even if you will be late. The woman in there will never get home....
10.00 a.m. ‘Dad? Dad, are you still there?’ She hated the phone calls. Hated them for how impractical they were and how she couldn’t tell if he’d fallen asleep, switched his mobile off or forgotten how to work it. Above all, though, she hated the impersonal nature of it an...