Chapter Eleven
"Oh dear lord, how long's he been in there?" Kate stared at her sister, Liz, horrified. "Since midnight? And Chris is locked up, too?" She listened to Jillian describe the situation in The Kings Head, her mobile to her ear. "Who let Chris play? Of course it will kick off; neither of them have accepted what happened yet."
The police officer, her long-term friend and squash partner went on to explain that the pool league wasn't run by locals. It was county wide, so the organisers wouldn't have local knowledge, or care about such issues. "Then it was the players for the Lion. They shouldn't have brought Chris along. They should’ve benched him, is that the right word?"
It didn't matter. The result was the same: her husband was locked up, sleeping off a hangover no doubt. When
