Chapter 5Walter showed the policeman out again to his waiting car.
“We’ll wait for the transport to show up for the body,” he told Walter, pausing on the shallow doorstep. “The pathologist we use is based at the hospital. I expect they’ll organise the ambulance to come for her.”
Walter nodded. “You can wait in the kitchen if you like,” he offered slightly reluctantly, scratching at his wrist. Normally he wouldn’t have had any qualms about offering, but Sylvia and Lucy were twitchy about something and he wanted to find out what it was.
Fortunately the detective shook his head, looking around the front gardens. “No,” he said, “thank you, but we’ll wait out here. It’s a nice day.”
It was a nice day. Far too nice to be stuck in the surgery with a corpse. Frost’s driver was sat on the bonne
