The Complete H-Series of The Eulalie Park Mysteries by Fiona Snyckers

Author:Fiona Snyckers [Snyckers, Fiona]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780639929729
Publisher: Fiona Snyckers
Published: 2019-07-01T22:00:00+00:00

Donal

Trainee Constable Donal Macgregor reported for duty the next morning at his local division police station.

An elite riot squad was being put together in response to the Scotland First march that was due to start at eleven.

The neighborhood that the neo-Nazis were planning to march on was near Leith, but less gentrified. It consisted of a narrow road the length of two city blocks. It had become popular with locals and tourists alike because of the ethnically diverse shops and restaurants that lined both sides of the street. Kosher delis rubbed shoulders with Ethiopian restaurants and Italian bakeries. They offered authentic delicacies from all over the world.

Most of the owners lived in apartments upstairs, which made them even more vulnerable to aggression from the neo-fascists. Their lives and livelihoods were at stake.

Several attempts had been made to stop the march. The residents and business owners of the little street had drawn up a petition. They had even applied to court for an urgent interdict against the marchers. All these attempts had failed. Scotland’s free speech laws were strong. The organization had insisted that its demonstration would be peaceful, which made it difficult to justify a ban.

All the police could do was make sure they were well prepared for any trouble.

Donal chose to interpret the temporary lifting of his suspension as a good sign.

“They wouldn’t trust me with this job if they really thought I had done something wrong,” he told his sister the night before. Catriona agreed, but with reservations. She suspected that her brother’s superiors were quite capable of using him to fill out the numbers in a riot squad and then put him back on suspension the next day.

Catriona had been shocked by what she had seen in the financial statements she had examined that night. This was more than just carelessness or a little white-collar skimming. Someone was systematically defrauding the department of thousands of pounds each month. What lengths would that person go to in order to protect themselves from discovery? When she left her brother’s flat that evening, she had been seriously worried.

The trainee constables of Donal’s year had received anti-riot training, but none of them had put it into practice. There were scenarios that could be simulated in training, but a riot wasn’t one of them. The station had several fully qualified officers with several years’ experience who had never experienced a riot at first hand before.

Scotland First boasted on its website that several thousand people were planning to join the march. The police were operating on the assumption that this was accurate.

It was clear from the demeanor of Donal’s fellow trainees that news of his suspension had reached their ears. They avoided his gaze and greeted him stiffly. It was so noticeable that even Donal with his limited ability to read people’s faces picked up on it.

Constable Burns looked particularly surprised to see him.

“Are you sure you’re meant to be here, Macgregor? I think there must be a mistake. You’re still on suspension, my lad.

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