Eight
It was almost four o’clock when Carl arrived back in the office. That gave him fifteen minutes to prepare his thoughts before fronting the media session DCI Ranking had organised for four fifteen, in time to make the evening news.
Carl wasn’t happy. He’d wanted to wait until they had something concrete to announce but the media had been pressuring the Commissioner for answers, particularly on who had killed one of their favourite characters - the priest who rescued prisoners.
Consequently, when DCI Rankin had briefed the Commissioner on Carl’s interview with Mrs Cameron, the Commissioner had seized the opportunity to move the spotlight from his office to the bishop’s. He’d ordered the chief inspector to call an immediate media conference, and discreetly explode the priest’s saintl
