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There was something comforting about not being constrained by the very specific and process-driven way things were done in the Met. It got results — that couldn’t be denied — but Caroline wasn’t sure it was any more successful than the holistic approach to policing she preferred.
This was much more like the job she’d envisaged, spending a late Sunday evening hunched over a laptop and a pile of papers, crossing the t’s and dotting the i’s and trying to find a crack somewhere — anywhere — which might provide her with a breakthrough.
As she flicked through the sheets of paper and read the notes left by Dexter, Sara and Aidan, she felt immensely proud of her little team. They were severely under-resourced in comparison to other major incident teams, and the thought of a team of four solv
