Chapter Eleven
Detective Inspector Dawn Cummings flashed her badge at the uniformed constable manning the entrance and parked her Astra in the nearest spot in the museum car park.
At 39, she was the only female senior officer at her station.
It was a position she was proud to hold, although her ambition had always been to reach the dizzy heights of commissioner one day. The fact that she had already failed the DCI exam twice was not lost on her or her superiors so, for now, she was happy to plod along and see what the future might hold.
Dawn was an eternal optimist, and lived by the saying, “Never say never,” so she was open to whatever might be waiting for her around the corner.
She had lived in the home counties all her life and, other than a couple of brief secondments to London, B
