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Although Wendy was happy to have been asked to accompany Culverhouse to the offices of The Inquirer, she did have more pressing matters to attend to. Besides which, she asked herself, did it really need two officers to travel down to London? The team was short-staffed as it was, and while the addition of Ryan Mackenzie might help in the long-run, the time it would take for her to get up to speed with how things worked at Mildenheath CID would effectively make them even more short-staffed in the short-term.
As far as Wendy was concerned, this would be the perfect task to give to Ryan, having her accompany Culverhouse instead. She could shadow him and watch how things were done, even if they weren’t usually the best ways of doing things. But Culverhouse was a stubborn old bugger. If he’
