Neither Angels Nor Demons

Parish and Richards are given the case of a dismembered male body found in an abandoned cesspit, but one body quickly becomes three, then eight . . . Richards finds out from her mother who JL is and it involves the thirty-four year-old case of Edgar Lassiter who raped and murdered three young girls and has recently died in Broadmoor. Also, Richards receives a call from three internet sleuths who think they've found a new lead in an old case from the 1970s dubbed the Corpse in the Copse by the press when the body of a young woman was unearthed in 2008. The problem is that they need to access records from the Old Norfolk Hospital, which are protected by a Lord Chancellor's Instrument. Then, Richards receives a warning telling her to leave the past in the past, a car with two people inside parks outside their house overnight, and one of the internet sleuths dies in a hit-and-run. Meanwhile, Stick is searching for Xena. He co-opts the help of Sergeant Toomey in Traffic and Mister Peckham in Forensics. The Chief allows him twenty-four hours, but he disobeys orders to keep looking for her. Then, the Chief relents and gives him a temporary partner, so that he's not on his own – PCSO Barbara Mulroney who's been on the job for three weeks.


Genre: Mystery