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The first afternoon briefing of any investigation was often quite a busy one. Early plans of action had been put into place and information would be starting to come through. It was usually at these early briefings that the general direction of an investigation would start to become clear.
With this particular investigation, the mood was an odd one. It was standard for CID to get involved when there had been a death and there was a suspicion of foul play. In this case, though, there wasn’t even a body to prove that anyone had even died. But with uniform resources being severely limited and a CID unit on hand in Mildenheath, it was often easier for uniformed officers to just dump it on Culverhouse and his team to cover their own arses.
‘Right, settle down everyone,’ Culverhouse said,
