Sorry for falling behind. Hectic couple of days. I will try to catch up!


Christmas shopping did not come easily to a SIO of a MIT, at least not when you worked for MMP it didn't. Perhaps, if you were on a force somewhere quiet... wherever that was.

Anyway, in the here and now – the here being the middle of Manchester, the now being the middle of a double murder investigation – she was struggling with the wretched present buying.

Best friends were the worst.

It was just as the suspect legged it that she spotted it. Sending her DCs after him with a nod, Julie peered closer in the dark window.

'Perfect.'