In the car Knox said, ‘I don’t know if you’ve been keeping up with the outside world, Boss, but do you know about this McGinley story?’ ‘The murders in Liverpool?’ said Mariner. ‘That’s more your territory than mine.’ ‘So the name McGinley doesn’t mean anything to you?’ ‘Not that I can think of. Why?’ Knox emitted a derisive laugh. ‘Millie’s convinced that Glenn McGinley has come down here. She even started cooking up some tenuous link you might have had with him.’ ‘What kind of link?’ ‘An imaginary one probably,’ said Knox, playing it down. ‘A “six degrees of Kevin Bacon” probably, you know, someone shared a cell with someone who shared a cell with someone who was on remand with … I wouldn’t get too worked up about it. Millie’s being a bit weird, but that’s about what you’d expect at the moment.’ ‘What do you mean?’ ‘What with her being pregnant and everything,’ said Knox cheerfully. ‘Theresa was off the planet half the time, when she was expecting our two.’ ‘Millie’s pregnant?’ said Mariner.
