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Wendy quite often got annoyed by Jack Culverhouse’s attitude, and today was no different.
She could put up with him being obnoxious and offensive — she’d learnt to just blank that out in her mind — but she couldn’t deal with him going AWOL for hours on end, effectively leaving her to lead the investigation in his place.
She wasn’t quite sure how she’d got to that point, either. He was the DCI, he was in charge. She wasn’t even the most experienced DS on the team — Steve Wing and Frank Vine had worked on the major crimes unit for years before she’d joined. Even Debbie Weston, although she was only a DC, had years of service on her. But at the same time she knew there was no way that Steve or Frank would ever step up to the mark. Even if the job was going, they wouldn’t go for it. They
