A Passion So Deadly

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With special thanks to Detective Superintendent Steve Livings and Detective Sergeant Frank Waghorn of the Avon and Somerset Constabulary and to Home Office Pathologist Dr Hugh White.

There was nothing unusual about the tall elegant woman who parked her car with neat efficiency, reversing it at the first attempt precisely into her chosen slot in the quiet avenue alongside the school playing field.

She emerged with athletic ease, swinging first one long shapely leg and then the other out through the driver’s door, and reaching at the same time for the large leather briefcase on the back seat.

It was late afternoon on a pleasantly warm August day — the weather a welcome break in the unseasonably wet and unpleasant conditions which had plagued the Southwest of England throughout most of the month. The sun still shone bright in the sky but was casting deep shadows from the sycamore trees which lined either side of the road like giant leafy sentries. A distant view of Bristol’s famous Clifton Suspension Bridge, glowing orange, could just be glimpsed in a gap between the buildings and their surrounds of heavy foliage high above the city centre. In the playing field a noisy pre-season schoolboy football match was in progress.

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