Chapter One
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DETECTIVE INSPECTOR Joseph Rafferty’s Monday had started badly. But, although he had banged his head on a corner of the kitchen shelf, nearly set fire to his flat when he left the toast to its own devices while he hunted for pain killers and received a threatening letter from the electricity company for non-p*****t of its red bill, all the morning’s irritations failed to dent his new-found happiness.
It took his arrival at work to do that and the discovery that the day – potentially the rest of his life – was about to take a turn for the worse.
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