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I must have made a mistake with the chains. At any rate, they’d come loose from Jed’s ankles, and his body, full of the gases of decomposition, had risen to the surface of the lagoon. It was discovered floating face down, by a group of children who ought to have had something more constructive to do with their day, such as playing on computer games in the comfort of their own homes.
When the police picked me up for questioning, it came as a surprise, even though I was half expecting it. Two of them came up to me while I was in the car park outside work. I was grateful they hadn’t had to go in and detain me in front of my colleagues.
It was two plainclothes coppers who approached me. I wondered if that meant they were treating me as a higher priority suspect than before.
One of them
