Lynley looked at herhands and she realised she was actually wringing them, like theunfortunate, impotent heroine in a melodrama featuring Simon Legree. NumberFifty-five? She works during the day, the voice called back. Hegave a glance to Lynley's warrant card and said yes, he was RaphaelRobson. How'dhe think it felt, sitting in there with a sodding copper who'd probablynot even passed his bleeding O-levels for Christ
As she did so, Lynley saw that the rest of the books on the shelveswere also biographies of Catholic saints, all of them female. Without athought, she unzipped the top and started to work her way out of it asshe talked. He asked himself what harm couldit do, simply to make the suggestion to his wife. TheHammersmith police are investigating.
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