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OLD SALT WORKS, LOS COCOTEROS, LANZAROTE, TUESDAY 19 MARCH 2019Tuesday was when Billy went for lunch in Arrecife, treating himself to a table for one at the best establishments the little city had to offer. But after last Saturday every day had turned into a do-nothing day normally reserved for Fridays. Since discovering Oscar Cribb’s body, there were moments when Billy was almost beside himself with paranoia. Times when his stress levels reached such a pitch, he was immobilised. He knew a run or a swim or some heavy lifting in his home gym would do him good but on that warm and sunny Tuesday some other part of his mind led him to the one room in the house where he was always calm, always centred, always focussed: the puzzle room.
Billy was not a self-reflective kind of guy, but if he
