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The incident room was eerily quiet that morning, a mixture of tiredness at most of the officers having been up all night and the anguish at having been bettered — twice — by what they had already begun referring to as the Mildenheath Ripper.
Culverhouse’s main worry was that there was no way he was going to be able to head the press off after this. The heavy police presence in the town hadn’t gone unnoticed, but it didn’t seem to have sparked panic. Suzanne Corrigan had been persuaded not to run a*********s involving mentions of the Ripper up until now, and the team had been very careful not to make details of the last two killings known to anyone outside the force. But he knew it would be nigh-on impossible for it to remain that way.
All in all, that meant that Mildenheath would be
