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Although Culverhouse usually liked to station himself at a desk in the main incident room with the rest of his team, there were times when he didn’t want to be amongst the hubbub and instead retreated into his own office. This was one of those times.
The situation with his wife had, of course, been playing on his mind for years. He’d gradually managed to deal with it and push it to the back as time had gone on, but since her return and subsequent re-disappearance, it had been eating away at him again. And this time it wasn’t showing any signs of going away.
He picked up his mobile phone, scrolled through the contacts list, and tapped on the screen to call Antonio García. García was an Inspector with the Spanish police in Alicante, on the eastern coast of Spain. After Culverhouse had
