Chapter EightThat night, Agnes couldn't sleep. She tossed and turned as she thought about what Doctor Nichols had found during the post-mortem.
It was possible the answer was really quite simple. Wendy Hamilton could have wanted to have a baby and found a clinic willing to help her to get pregnant, though she would probably have had to lie about her age. But why hadn't she told her parents? Could there have been another explanation – something much more sinister – trafficking?
Even while Alan was telling her about Doctor Nichols's findings, the thought of people paying women to carry a child they could then sell to a childless couple, had immediately sprung to mind. Was it possible that Wendy had been paid to carry a baby, only to pass it over to some unscrupulous person, to be sold to t
