The fact that the DCI had returned filled Lyneham with some trepidation. To increase his concern, or to play to his vivid imagination, had come 'talk' that something new had been found with respect to the body discovered near Greensleeves Lane. Was this the reason for DCI Stephen's reappearance he asked himself? The ‘not knowing’ what was happening rendered him anxious, unnerved, affecting his concentration and his sleep.
'I wonder what's been found?' He kept asking himself; it gnawed at him so he decided to do a bit of fishing: he knew from experience that probing at the right time and in the right manner, i.e., when he thought he could catch them in a good, receptive mood, an idle or innocent inquiry could elicit good intelligence. He quickly briefed himself up to date on the break-ins
