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When Caroline finally got home, she slept until midday. Her first thought on waking was to call the office and get an update on Patrick Walsh, but she didn’t. She knew what would have happened. His custody clock had run down, the murder of Arthur Clifton would mean he’d be heavily downgraded as a suspect in Roger’s murder, and he’d have been released. But a nagging doubt stuck at the back of Caroline’s mind.
What if this was all part of the plan? What if Patrick Walsh had killed Roger Clifton, and the reason Arthur was attacked and murdered so suddenly and desperately was because it needed to be done then? To her, it made perfect sense. If Arthur Clifton was murdered while Patrick Walsh was in police custody, that’d throw huge doubt on his guilt — as it had done already. Either way, t
