and LESS FOR CASH! Ella and Murray went through the glass doors to be greeted by a young woman with an artistically lopsided haircut and a slapped-on smile. ‘How may I help you today?’ Ella showed her badge. ‘Robbie Kimball, please.’ The smile didn’t budge. ‘Just one moment.’ In a minute she was ...
Callum brought Ella tea and toast in bed, and sat beside her to check her shoulder again. ‘It’s hard to drink when you’re doing that,’ she said as he rotated her arm in the air. ‘Ouch.’ He pressed his fingers into the joint. ‘Does that hurt?’ ‘A little.’ He moved to the ol...
Callum was being ridiculous. As if she meant that no criminal could ever be trusted again. Had she said anything, anything at all, to suggest that? She was merely stating facts. And she understood that he was sensitive about his dad, but jeez. That reaction. She swung hard...
‘Unit twelve,’ Ella said, and Murray pressed the buzzer. They waited. The traffic on the street behind them was loud. Ella went for the buzzer again, a long press. This time the intercom came to life. ‘What!’ The woman’s voice was hoarse. ‘Police,’ Ella said. ‘What?’ ‘Detectives. We’d like to spe...
His eyes were sore from lack of sleep. Jo had thought his restlessness in the night was because of Aidan, and said over breakfast that he should just take him to Rozelle and get it over with. ‘I know you’re a nice guy and you don’t want to stuff up anyone’s career,’ she’d said. ‘But once he’s qua...
It made her scalp tighten to think of her encounter with Frank Shakespeare and she hoped she wasn’t destined to always put her foot in her mouth around him. No, she thought, what she really hoped was that she would never see him again.She took the lift up, walked into the Unsolved office and stop...
First he heard people talking around him, then he managed a moan, then he gathered the power to move his arms and legs millilitres at a time. His head throbbed. His eyes seemed glued shut. He couldn’t breathe through his nose and his throat was sore. And all the time something black and nasty pul...
The sound dragged her up inch by inch, her exhausted body resisting, her mind half a step ahead and shouting that it could be a breakthrough, wake up, wake up! She fumbled with the buttons, then with getting the thing to her ear. ‘Yep.’ ‘Um, hi.’ A woman’s voice, anxious and unsure. ‘Is this Dete...