Rough Justice (Knight & Culverhouse Book 4) by Adam Croft

Author:Adam Croft [Croft, Adam]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Circlehouse
Published: 2015-10-29T04:00:00+00:00

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Suzanne Corrigan had been feeling stronger every day. She was a naturally shy person, but keen to ensure that she got the right story for her paper. Coming face to face with the Mildenheath Ripper had taught her a lot about life, and she was finding the mundane things far less daunting after that particular ordeal.

For one thing, she’d learnt that life was too short. Although she’d always tried to keep her moral compass in check — something which was very difficult in the world of journalism — she now understood the sanctity of life and saw the damage that could easily be done. Even so, she didn’t feel she was prying by trying to find out exactly what was going on in the world of Jack Culverhouse.

He’d been taking leave from work, that much she knew. That wasn’t particularly surprising, though, after the time he’d been having of it recently. Mildenheath CID hadn’t exactly been the quietest of police departments in the last few years. As far as she could see, though, there seemed to be more to it. Signs and signals had been coming her way as a result of a dogged press gang who were keen to milk as much from the Mildenheath Ripper story as they could, combined with Jack Culverhouse’s propensity to not give a shit. The fact that he seemed to be going off the rails, then, was fairly easy to ascertain.

What was most intriguing, though, was the secrecy that had surrounded the body found in Southbrook. It was a murder; she knew that much due to the fact that CID had attended the scene and forensics were working all hours combing the house for clues. What had really piqued her interest, though, was just how much secrecy was being placed on it all.

She prided herself on having a good relationship with the police — she deemed that vital to the job — but they’d gone completely cold on her with this one. She told herself that could be down to any number of things: the new DCI running the show while Culverhouse was on leave or even her stupid decision to try and put Wendy Knight on the spot about Jeff Brelsford’s killer having murdered him in some sort of vigilante attack.

Perhaps that wasn’t such a stupid comment, though. In light of recent developments she could actually have been much closer to the truth than she’d known. What if the reason the police were reluctant to release any information on the Southbrook death was because they thought the same person had killed both people? Her only way of finding out was to discover who the dead body in Southbrook was and to do a bit of digging around to find out some connections, but that made her uneasy.

She didn’t want to compromise her good relationship with the police — that was never a good idea for a local crime reporter — and her sense of morality kept telling her she had to do things the proper, right way.

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