NOTHING OUT OF THE ORDINARY
Some months earlierLucy Anderson loved a good crime story. Fact or
fiction didn’t bother her. If pushed she would say her favourite tales were
those serial killer stories. Apparently, you could buy tonnes of those kinds of books in America, but Lucy had
no idea how to go about getting them.
Did you have to phone bookshops over there and ask them to send you
some in exchange for a cheque? Lucy’s mind boggled at how expensive that would
work out. Phoning the US, the costs of the books, sending a cheque across the Atlantic and then the
postage fees for the books themselves.
She’d have to content
herself with the occasional tabloid story and the crime fiction she read
voraciously, PD James, Agatha Christie, and her all-time favourite book, In Cold Blood.
