Stanley was somebody under emotional siege; he was practically a man who was no longer at ease. What had started as some minor inquiry into what staff at the Matter Maternity Hospital had described as ‘a small error of mistaken exchange of new born children’ had blown into a full scale inquiry into child trafficking investigations going back over twenty years. It was like his wife Jennifer’s misdeeds were coming back to haunt him. He could have brushed aside this recent development as an ordinary day-to-day occurrence not worth worrying about had it not been for the fact that his friend of over twenty years, Doctor Fred Otis was among the major suspects being investigated for the crime. Otis was the one who had initiated and presided over the adoption, so it seemed, of Gina with the explan
