WITH THE SEARCH FOR the missing knife, and the blunt instrument that had killed Dahlia continuing, in sudden squalls and high winds that made the job of searching unpleasant, Rafferty and Llewellyn concentrated on Adrian Chambers and Will Harper.
Adrian Chambers had told his boyfriend to dispense with the duty Brief, and had provided him with the services of Ballantyne, who insisted that they either release or charge the pair. But Rafferty was equally insistent on hanging onto them until the statutory thirty-six hours had passed and was seriously considering requesting the permitted extension. But Llewellyn persuaded him against it.
‘You don’t want Ballantyne to infer that you were staging a personal vendetta if we do get this case to court.’
‘A personal vendetta? What do you mean?’
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