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Deadly Reprisal (Detective Zoe Finch #5) Deadly Reprisal by Rachel McLean
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“Hi,”
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“I think people were dealing drugs from that house and they want as little police attention on them as possible.”
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“He was the bastard who’d dragged her daughter into police corruption, who was responsible for their kids being kidnapped as far as she was concerned.”
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“You weren’t at that hotel, Frank. Those poor bloody women. I watched one of them die, when Adam Fulmer deliberately ran her over. It’s hard to leave a case alone, after you’ve seen something like that.”
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“don’t know. But what I’m wondering is whether Jenson’s death has got anything to do with the fact that it was his girlfriend who found Laurence. Not to mention his involvement in the investigation.” “You think he knew something about Laurence’s murder? Kayla told him something?”
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“I don’t care if you’re the Queen of bloody Sheba. You parked a Mini on double yellows and you made it harder for me to do my job.”
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“I’ve been given responsibility for getting this sampling operation off the ground, and that’s what I’m doing. Tell Dr Edwards it makes no difference what my rank is.”
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“Doesn’t change what he did,” Mo replied. “That warden gave him responsibility for two hundred undergraduates. What the hell was she thinking?”
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“I’ve seen the way you’ve been mooning about since Laurence died. He was an arsehole, Kayla. Why are you so upset about it?”
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“Lesley regarded her boss. She didn’t like it either: the fact that there’d been a bent copper in her team, and the fact it tainted everyone. She had a feeling Randle didn’t like it for different reasons.”
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“Meaning he got to stay at the university as a postgrad, counselling vulnerable students and with no comeback for what he supposedly did.”
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“If Nicholas does that to me when he’s at uni I’ll be straight over there to tell him what’s what.”
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“Impossible to have any respect when your perspective on the bright and shiny West Midlands Police Service is the small minority of bad apples.”
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“Interviews with family members were always a mix of sympathy, dread and suspicion.”
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“He couldn’t imagine what they were going through. Summoned from Leeds to identify their dead son not five months after waving him off to university. Being stuck in this soulless place couldn’t help.”
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“I’m not going to start throwing around accusations when he ain’t here to defend himself.”
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“We wouldn’t pin anything on anybody, Mr Startshaw. We might accuse suspects of committing crimes, but that’s a very different thing, and in this case, it rather depends on what your client may or may not have done,” Zoe told him with an insincere smile.”
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“Zoe closed her eyes. She had no doubt that Ian had been watching Detective Superintendent Randle. But what she did doubt was that he’d reported what he’d seen to Carl and his colleagues in Professional Standards.”
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“Jenson tugged at his t-shirt. He shrugged. “Who knows what makes women act the way they do.” He grinned at Mo, who didn’t return the smile.”
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“Nothing’s informal with Professional Standards, Zoe thought, but instead of objecting she nodded. She had nothing to hide, after all.”
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“He told me the two girls are nosy parkers. His words. Always creeping around the building, filming people.”
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“She’s scared,” Tina said. “She thinks that if she tells the police anything, the men will hurt her. Or her son in Romania.”
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“Kayla wasn’t sure how she felt about being a conspirator in what could only be described as extortion. But one thing she was sure about was that she didn’t want to be Lin’s next victim.”
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“Laurence”
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