Chapter 15Down time
“Something's worrying you,” Maria Ross said to her husband as they sat in their comfortable lounge after dinner that evening. “I can always tell, when you get that faraway look in your eyes.
“Of course you can, and yes, I'm worried. Who wouldn't be? I've got a dead body, or to be precise, pieces of a dead body, belonging to a well-known producer of pornographic movies, who Doc Nugent was able to ascertain was murdered, but so far, none of my team have been able to come up with a single strong suspect.”
Maria, a forty-four-year-old G.P. at a local surgery in Prescot, could often see beyond the fog that clouded her husband's thoughts when he became bogged down in a case. This time however, Ross had given her so few details about his latest case that, so far, she wasn't
