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The call came in from the front desk to let Caroline know Amie Tanner had arrived for her voluntary interview. It’d be a good opportunity to find out more about Martin and the sort of person he was. Although they didn’t yet have much to go on, it was often the case that you could get two very different impressions of the same person by speaking to two different acquaintances. Caroline’s maxim was Know the victim, and that had proven far more useful to her than any other tip or strategy she’d picked up in her years of policing. In the overwhelming majority of cases, people were killed because of who they were or what they’d done. If you managed to get to the bottom of who the victim was and what they’d been up to, you were — more often than not — mere inches from identifying their killer
