Chapter Seven
‘Before we continue the interviews, Dafyd, can you get on the computer and check HOLMES for other young women found strangled and half-naked in the past six months? I don’t want to start this investigation before we’re sure this isn’t the second or third in a serial killer’s mad attempt to get in the record books.’
‘I already have.’ Llewellyn, the computer-geek, told him laconically after they’d been back at their office at the police station barely a few minutes. He’d even fetched the tea, as without regular supplies of the stuff, Rafferty was unable to function.
‘And?’
‘A young woman went missing in Lincolnshire two weeks ago. Her body was found yesterday, strangled and half-clothed like Miss Scott.’
‘Who’s the Senior Investigating Officer?
‘A Detective Inspector Wain
