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The incident room at Mildenheath CID was buzzing that morning. Serious crime was not only a growing part of everyday life in Mildenheath, but for the CID officers murder had been becoming more commonplace. Even so, the discovery of a body and the opening of a new case could still produce a frisson of excitement.
Culverhouse had assembled the same team that had assisted him in previous cases, choosing to reward loyalty as he was wont to do. Detective Sergeant Wendy Knight was to be his second in command, with Detective Sergeants Frank Vine, Steve Wing and Luke Baxter providing assistance.
Wendy was not Luke Baxter’s biggest fan. Like most of the rest of the officers in CID, she had worked her way up from the bottom and earned her position as a Detective Sergeant. Her father had been a
