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‘Tell me that didn’t strike you as suspicious,’ Caroline said, as they got into the car and headed back to Oakham.
‘It wasn’t an ideal outcome,’ Dexter said, trying to remain diplomatic as always.
‘You know, I had half a mind to arrest him. I was this close. Then he’d have no choice but to talk. The Police and Criminal Evidence Act doesn’t protect church ministers from spreading social gossip, so far as I understand it.’
‘You wanted to arrest a minister because he didn’t want to get into rumours and hearsay over one of his parishioners?’
‘They aren’t rumours and hearsay. Alice Clifton’s own daughter told us that much. You saw his face when I mentioned Patrick Walsh’s name. There’s something very odd going on there.’
‘Or maybe it just wasn’t the most sensitive line of questioning.
