Julia Entwistle was murdered with her ice skates. Brutally. I am a crime scene investigater, and I must say, that was the horriblest case I'd ever worked on. Let me start at the beginning...

9th Feb 1999, Dear Abi,

Untold years of falling leaves had made the well-worn track soft underfoot, except for the steep sections where stone steps had been laid a century before. (My first ever short story)

Barbs dishevelled, shivering, it keeps the water still with the anaesthetic needle of its leg. And then, when it kicks off, the ever-patient bird gets surgical.

The young are dying from a mysterious illness, some of them choose to end it all, others go to the death chamber

When work was getting heavy. The pressure homing hard. Billy would call up Jodie. A platinum credit card. Jodie would ask him to lie on the carpet, and shuffle with his senses