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Lilac received another call from her friend Lucy. Jack Styles had not arrived. She had chased the paperwork and just now been told the body was missing. ‘Likely back into the river,’ she said, adding what Lilac was already thinking, that the Styles drowning had to have been no accident. Lilac asked for Lucy to send the reports, especially the analysis of the water in the lungs and where forensics determined the drowning took place, as that was all they would now get.
Lilac went into the communal office, stood on a chair and got the team’s attention. After batting away the ribald reposts about Barmy and the Doc, she had just started when they heard the shooting. ‘s**t a brick, what’s that?’ and the phones began to ring.
Nakka sat in the nave, head bowed, his hands grasped and wringing
