She sighed. ‘And much good it’ll do her now. Though I doubt that Clive Barstaple would have recommended keeping her on in any case. Not once she’d served her purpose. She would have been regarded as expendable like most of the rest of us. She must have known that.’
When she had gone and made for the pub with her colleagues, Rafferty glanced at Llewellyn and commented, ‘No shortage of suspects, anyway, Daff. They certainly sound a desperate enough bunch.’
Llewellyn nodded. ‘And desperate men and women do desperate things.’
‘Including murder.’ Rafferty paused and thoughts of Superintendent Bradley prompted him to add, ‘maybe the murder of Clive Barstaple will give the less compassionate bosses in this country pause for thought – of the ‘there but for the grace of God go I’ – variety.’ He
