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It was high profile, the case that had come in that afternoon, as any crime happening at Lavenstock College, much less a murder, was bound to be. Demanding top-brass attention, since anybody who was anybody in Lavenstock had links with the school one way or another, be it as school governors or merely parents of day boys. Which was why Mayo had had to inform his officers that he’d been requested – he used the word advisedly – by the ACC, to take charge personally of the enquiries. None of them believed him reluctant to do this, and they’d have been damn right, he thought. It was a decision he’d have made himself, anyway. It never needed much to get him out of the office, no way could you get the feel of a case stuck behind a desk.
And this was another murder, another shooting, making t
