FORTY-THREE
As usual, he watched the local news on BBC at 6 o’clock and then the ITV news on catch-up at 7, waiting for exasperated senior police officers to announce that they had no clues and were completely baffled as to the identity of the victim and who the killer, clearly a criminal mastermind, might be.
And then!
And then some stupid f*****g b***h of a DCI announces they have identified the specimen through f*****g DNA. He sat back, rocked to the core.
She, DCI Swan, had showed him no respect, no respect at all for the genius killer who was baffling the police but was barely mentioned. How could she not even mention that the killer was fiendishly clever?
He raged with anger. This insult could not, would not go unpunished. DCI Swan, you might well find yourself a specimen. See h
