Chapter 21Briefing
With not much more than a day left to the team to prevent a third murder, assuming the killer kept to the timetable of the original Lighthouse Murders, Ross knew this was probably time for a final roll of the dice. With all the odds stacked against him and his people, the pressure was mounting by the minute as the clock ticked away the minutes. The wall clock in the squad room was loud enough that, as everyone sat or stood silently, waiting for him to begin, the sound of the second hand as it made its way inexorably round the clock face was like the knell of doom, creeping ever closer and Ross could only see it as watching and waiting as some as yet unknown woman police officer's life slowly ebbing away.
It was unusual for such silence to pervade the squad room as they
