Chapter 19“Aye, aye, what's going on here?” Alan asked as he and Thomas walked along Alison Street. “The place is teeming with photographers. Something's happened in Garturk Street. Come on Tommy let's go and have a look.”
For an instant Thomas felt a stab of anxiety, but it was only for an instant.
“I wonder what it is,” Alan said as he speeded up his pace. “That's the street where the two lesbians live. Maybe something's happened to them.”
Thomas had to practically run to keep up with Alan and, as they hurried past the shops, they had to dodge the boxes of fruit and bags of rubbish that littered the pavement. When they arrived at the junction with Garturk Street they couldn't see anything through the crowd of people.
Alan took his ID card from his pocket. “Official business let me th
