By Kerry Wilkinson
One boy is lifeless. A killer is unfastened. who's next?
Detective Sergeant Jessica Daniel is first at the scene as a stolen vehicle crashes on a misty, rainy Manchester morning. the motive force is useless, however the greatest surprise awaits her while she discovers the physique of a kid wrapped in plastic within the boot of the car.
As Jessica struggles to find the identification of the motive force, a skinny path leads her first to a collection of garments buried within the woods after which to a listing of children's names deserted in an allotment shed.
With the iciness kick back surroundings in and oldsters trying to find solutions, Jessica needs to discover who has been looking at neighborhood young children, and the way this connects to a case that has been unsolved for 14 years.
This is booklet 4 within the "Jessica Daniel" sequence, following on from 'Locked In', 'Vigilante' and 'The lady In Black'.
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When he saw me he got up and took a Sig Sauer pistol from the table, stuffing it into his waistband, the grip hanging over the lip of his drawstring pants. We shook hands and he walked me over to my bike. He straddled it, started it up, and rode the throttle in neutral. He yelled over the engine, “That Spectre pistol Core's selling you? ” “Mommy. That's too much for a pistol, Bird. It was me I'd charge you three hundy” “That's cool of you, dude, but he ain't budging. ” I stuck my chin at the bike.
Or get shot here and let my partners waste him? Or hope one of them gets a clean line on him right this second? Or lie down and try to stay out of the way of everyone's bullets that were sure to puncture the Monte Carlo any second? Or, or, or … drop the keys? Yes, drop the keys. If I was going to die, then he was going to die too. I pulled the keys out of the ignition and let them fall into the footwell. ” “Motherfucker—” I leaned forward and Provestgaard did too. Mellor, who was closest to the passenger's side of the car, stuck his revolver in the rear window gap and emptied it.
Shoot, in that year, 1987, he probably even had his own computer. It didn't appeal to me. The bullet put the rush of the streets in me and through me. It guaranteed I'd never direct anything but myself, and convinced me that large desks were for castrated dummies. I thought, Fuck that, I'm gonna be an undercover. ” AUGUST 2001—JANUARY 2002 IF ANYTHING, THE shooting proved that my job, and therefore my life, was not glamorous in any way. Pathetically, I'd imagined that undercover life would be like Miami Vice—full of cigarette boats, fast cars, expensive clothes, and perfect tens in bikinis sitting in my lap while I negotiated with drug kingpins.