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1 " Boys are more likely to snap. You can see it, can’t you? "
― Jane Casey , One in Custody (Maeve Kerrigan #7.5)
2 " Who killed him, Sheila? Who stabbed Harry? "
3 " Eye contact. She wasn’t convinced, but she was listening. "
4 " Prosecuting young Aaron isn’t going to be easy. They’ll have to treat Sheila as a hostile witness, because she won’t give evidence against him. It’s a gift to his defence.’ ‘The prosecution will just have to cope. "
5 " There was blood in the sink and the bath, all photographed and swabbed by the crime-scene techs, so I didn’t have to worry too much about where I was standing or what I was touching. That didn’t necessarily mean I wanted to touch anything. I stood in the middle of the small, windowless space, smelling mildew and sour towels and wondering what I was missing. ‘What do you make of this? "
6 " I knelt gingerly on the dry half of the mattress and put my gloved palm just above the bloody smear Sheila had left. I put my right hand up to block Derwent’s swinging arm, and I leaned over where the body had been. "