A big car pulls up. No one gets out. Then the doors of a bar nearby open and people appear. Two men and a young woman, and one of the men has a hold on the woman's arm. It looks as if they're having words. Then this all happens quickly-they push the woman towards the car, one of the back doors opens and they manhandle her inside. There's a muffled shout from the woman and the car pulls away. It's all over in a few seconds.
It's just a few seconds-but seconds are all it takes to set in motion a sequence of events involving every member of the Kings Lake Central murder squad in the days to follow. And this time the threat is to one of their own. Peter Grainger is a former sixth-form English teacher and the author of 23 novels. He lives with his wife, sometimes a grandson, and a dog in a cottage in the Cambridgeshire fens. He travels as often as possible to the Norfolk coast he once called home.
