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The moment he entered the office, Nathan knew DCI Collins was annoyed with him, he even knew why; he had been told by both Frank Wells and Stephen that Collins wanted to see him the moment he arrived at the station, a want he had deliberately ignored.
He didn’t allow himself to be troubled by his superior’s annoyance, however, as far as he was concerned, getting the investigation into the possible murder of a teenage girl started was far more important.
With the DCI was a soberly dressed black woman in her late twenties, whom Nathan figured was the ambitious DI Rowena ‘Rocket’ Martins. He returned her gaze steadily, knowing that she was appraising him, and matching what she had heard about him against what she now saw; once, he would have appraised her in return, but now he found it h
