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been planning to move in with Randall but, following his arrest, she had ended up moving out of the flat she and Jessica shared and settling into a place on her own.
    The two constables were sitting opposite each other at a table with four seats. Jessica sat next to Carrie, who wasn’t eating but cradling a mug of tea, pulling out the chair with a scrape. Both were in their late twenties, although Rowlands was due to turn thirty in a few months – a source of much amusement to Jessica.
    ‘Is that a new wrinkle around your eye, Dave?’ she asked with a grin.
    The man looked up from the food he was eating. ‘Hardee-har-har. You do know you’ll always be those few years older than me, don’t you?’
    ‘Yeah, but I look younger. No greys either,’ Jessica replied, holding out a few strands of her long dark-blonde hair as if to illustrate her point.
    Rowlands was eating some sort of spaghetti concoction but put his fork down and touched his own spiky dark hair. ‘I don’t have any grey hairs.’
    ‘Only ’cos you dye it,’ chipped in Carrie with a wink to Jessica. DC Jones had a strong Welsh accent. She was short and slim with light blonde hair and a cackling laugh that carried across rooms. Jessica always marvelled at how even her laugh sounded as if it had an accent. She was the type of person that, due to her slight frame, was easily underestimated by people who didn’t know her. She was incredibly sharp though and Jessica liked her a lot.
    ‘Oh aye. Female union again, is it?’
    Jessica and the other woman laughed together. ‘I’ve got a job for you actually,’ Jessica said when things had settled down.
    Dave had now finished eating and was fiddling with something stuck between his teeth. ‘It’s something you don’t want to do, isn’t it?’
    ‘You’re very perceptive in your old age.’
    ‘Go on then.’
    ‘The body we found this morning, Craig Millar, he will have annoyed a fair few people…’ The constable rolled his eyes, guessing where the request was heading as Jessica continued. ‘We’ve got a few uniforms on his estate knocking on doors but you know what it’s like around there, people won’t want to be seen talking to us. I want you to put together a file of people who may have had it in for him. It’ll be a big list.’
    Rowlands sighed. ‘Didn’t you bring in two brothers this morning?’
    ‘Yeah. Their flats are being searched as we speak but I’m not convinced we’ll get anything linking them to the actual killing.’
    ‘When are you expecting results from the scene?’
    ‘Dunno. Maybe tomorrow for the initial bits? It depends how busy they are with other stuff and what they found.’
    ‘When do you want the list by?’
    ‘Tomorrow’s briefing. We’ll go over it then and divide it up among officers so we can start ruling people out.’ He scowled back at her. ‘You’ve gotta be careful screwing your face up like that at your age, Dave. It’ll only add more wrinkles.’
    ‘Yeah, yeah.’ Rowlands slid his chair back and stood up. ‘I guess I’m going to have to go get on with this ubiquitous list then.’
    Jessica looked at her colleague with a look of bewilderment on her face, while Carrie gave a small laugh. ‘A what list?’ Jessica said.
    ‘Ubiquitous. I figured it’s about time someone around here tried to raise the standard of conversation.’ He was grinning, clearly joking.
    ‘Can you even spell it?’ Carrie asked.
    ‘Did you get into a fight with a dictionary or something?’ Jessica added.
    ‘I figure at least one of us should be well-read.’
    ‘The only thing you’re well-read in is mucky magazines and pizza menus,’ Jessica snorted. Carrie laughed loudly, the familiar accent clear.
    ‘You look like you’re pretty good at reading pizza menus yourself,’ Dave replied with a laugh of his own, patting his stomach and pointing at Jessica. He turned around and strolled off still chuckling before anyone could say anything back.
    Jessica was
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