Thirteen
Guthrie pushed the MG hard almost all the way from Arbroath back along the main road to Dundee. His mind was going as fast as the car as he travelled the thirty minutes to the SOCO lab.
Visions of dead-end leads and interviews that brought nothing new to light filled his thinking. He just couldn't let this case get away from him.
It was not that long ago he was leading a murder inquiry, as part of the now defunct Tayside Police, when things bogged down, and the investigation stalled. Guthrie's frustration and pressure from the offices on the top floor of HQ led him to put his own form of pressure on some of the individuals he suspected knew more than they were letting on. It was this disregard for "modern policing methods" Alisdair had alluded to earlier in the day that spelled
