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‘The fracture’s conclusive,’ Lee replied. ‘We also have a time discrepancy. Professor Doyle left the post-mortem suite at half past four and called 999 an hour and a half later. Her father lived just outside Corbridge. That journey takes less than an hour, even in rush hour.’

‘Have you asked her about that?’

‘Not yet.’

‘OK,’ he said. ‘You have a crime scene with inconsistent broken glass and you have an easily explained time discrepancy. Neither ofthese things make Estelle the killer. But you arrested her anyway. You seem like a bright cop – what aren’t you telling me?’

‘Do you know what an FDR test is, Sergeant Poe?’

Poe did.

‘Shit,’ he said.


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