Knight & Culverhouse Box Set - Books 4-6 by Croft Adam

Author:Croft, Adam [Croft, Adam]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2017-10-11T16:00:00+00:00

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Wendy quite often got annoyed by Jack Culverhouse’s attitude, and today was no different.

She could put up with him being obnoxious and offensive — she’d learnt to just blank that out in her mind — but she couldn’t deal with him going AWOL for hours on end, effectively leaving her to lead the investigation in his place.

She wasn’t quite sure how she’d got to that point, either. He was the DCI, he was in charge. She wasn’t even the most experienced DS on the team — Steve Wing and Frank Vine had worked on the major crimes unit for years before she’d joined. Even Debbie Weston, although she was only a DC, had years of service on her. But at the same time she knew there was no way that Steve or Frank would ever step up to the mark. Even if the job was going, they wouldn’t go for it. They were perfectly happy being sergeants, waiting out their remaining years before they could retire. That left Wendy as the one who had to step up when Culverhouse couldn’t.

The last thing she knew, he’d got a phone call and had gone downstairs, but that was almost two hours ago, and he wasn’t answering his mobile. In the meantime, there were things that needed to be done. Decisions that needed to be made. Decisions that Culverhouse would no doubt disagree with, and even if he did agree with them, he’d disagree with her making them in his absence. She couldn’t win.

She decided that the best thing to do was some chasing up — that would give Culverhouse an extra half an hour to return. But after that, she’d have to start taking control.

Picking up her mobile, she scrolled through her contacts list to Xavier Moreno’s name and tapped Dial. She knew that even if Xav had no further information, he’d still be friendly about it.

‘Hi Wendy,’ he said, when he finally answered. ‘How are you?’

‘Yeah, I’m good. Listen, I was just wondering if you had any luck getting a closer look at Tanya Henderson’s machine. I spoke to Milton House yesterday morning and requested you personally. I don’t know if it did any good.’

‘My boss did mention something about an approach, but he didn’t seem to take it too seriously. I think he wants to keep me on the team here, to be honest. Thing is, with the budget cuts they tend not to replace civilian staff who leave unless they’re absolutely vital. And I’m probably not.’

‘Ah. Well maybe I’ll have another word with them then. Thing is, we’re pretty stuck at this end. Tanya Henderson was brought out of her coma yesterday, but she ended up getting really agitated and confused so they upped the dosage again. The doctors were worried she was going to cause herself harm, or that her brain would start to swell again.’

‘That doesn’t sound good,’ Xav said.

‘No, tell me about it. But we know there’s stuff on that machine. That’s where she kept all of her work documents and everything.

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