The dark of the night. Two girls are running for their lives. Terrified, one falls, and unable to get up, she forces her friend to go on without her, to save herself. For her there is no escape as their attackers close in…The following morning the body of a young girl is found in the canal. DCI T...
It was mind-blowingly hot and stuffy in the tiny room, with a faint smell that he hesitated to identify, but he had decided to keep well away from the glitzy air-conditioned tourist and business hotels, which were still busy in spite of the country’s slightly ambivalent relationship with its frie...
Sayeed Khan, smartly dressed in a dark suit and silk tie sat behind his father, who wore a dark jacket over white shalwar kameez, and was puffing heavily on a cheroot which had filled the stuffy room with acrid smoke. Sergeant Kevin Mower, who was sitting across the table from the older Khan, gla...
The echoing, clanging spaces, the dull-eyed men sitting waiting for their weary wives and frightened children, and the wary warders watching every move, filled her with almost as much despair as she could feel in the air around her. She could take pictures of this, she thought, and horrify people...
One of the nurses on duty at the desk smiled at her vaguely as she came in. ‘Any change?’ Val asked. The nurse shrugged, glancing at the small form in a large bed, wires and tubes attached to more machinery than any lay person could comprehend. ‘She...
She was flushed but the look on her face was defiant rather than contrite as she took a sip of Babycham. She looked about sixteen years old, he thought, and he did not know how to start telling her the extent of the risks he had seen her taking. He put his glass down and sighed. The only way forw...
‘Did you get hold of Murgatroyd?’ he asked without preamble, and before she opened her mouth to reply he stormed on regardless. ‘I’ve had Peter Maxwell from the council bending my ear,’ he said. ‘He’s apparently had Murgatroyd’s PA on the phone complaining that we’re runni...