Chapter Twenty-Five
Emilia had planned her death down to the last detail. As well as putting a noose around her neck, there was a placard and a small bag. The placard read ‘They starve horses here’. The bag contained her passport, inside of which she had named Julia as her next of kin. Larnaca police dutifully contacted Julia and they also contacted Dromos police station because the records showed their suicide victim came from the village.
When Inspector Antoni Giagkos arrived in Larnaca some two hours later, he recognised the young woman whose body had been transferred to the morgue and he felt a familiar weight land on his chest. He wasn’t a robot; he was still affected by another’s pain, he was still affected by sadness, he was still affected by death and, on a more professional leve
