Copper Script

by K.J. Charles

Are you sure about this?” “No,” Aaron said. “I can’t be because it’s all shadows and suspicions. What I know for certain is, in the last couple of weeks my DI—you read his hand too, he’s the obedient bully—has been piling work on me. I’ve been strongly discouraged from pursuing the murder case in which I suspect Colthorne’s involved. You’ve been harassed both by the Sabinis and by my cousin Paul, and Paul is an idiot and a snob. He wouldn’t write a letter at Darby Sabini’s dictation, but he would gladly take help from a gentleman and not question why it was offered. I think Colthorne is the puppet-master behind it all, and I think it’s because he knows or fears I’m on to him.” “How? And how would he know about me?” Joel demanded. “We’ve only met a handful of times, it’s not as though we’ve been kissing in public!” “I was wondering that too. But Sergeant Hollis knows about your conviction, and the business with Paul. If Colthorne asked him questions, he’d have no reason not to answer. And my DC on the murder case spoke to him in a way which I suspect made him realise he could be in trouble. That was unfortunate.” “Unfortunate?” Joel yelped. “Unfortunate?” “You know what I mean.” “I bloody don’t! Or, yes, I do but that is not the fucking word! How are you so calm about this? You’re talking about a sodding murderer trying to use me to ruin you! And that’s shitty for you, but if your cousin sues me for slander, or the papers make a field day of Corrupt Policeman Pays Fraud Gra...