Chapter 13Another Body
“Bollocks and damnation!” Ross shouted as he replaced the phone on its cradle. For a moment, he said nothing, just stared at Fenella Church, seated opposite him in his office. Derek McLennan had been forced to take an hour off from work. He'd arrived on time, early for work as usual, only for Ross to see he was in obvious pain.
“What's wrong, Derek?” he'd asked.
“I've been up nearly all night,” Derek replied. “I've never had pain like it, not even when I got shot. Debbie thinks I've got an abscess on my gum.”
McLennan's wife, Debbie, was a nurse at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital, and Ross was fairly sure that if she said Derek had an abscess, then he did have an abscess.
“Then what the f**k are you doing here, man? Get on the phone to your dentist and t
