Chapter 55
Well, here’s the big headline.” Chris Hudson is standing at the front of the briefing room, his team spread out in front of him. “Ian Ventham was murdered.”
Donna De Freitas looks around at the Murder Squad.
There are a few new faces. She simply cannot believe her luck.
Two murders and here she is, right in the middle of it all.
She had to hand it to Elizabeth. She definitely owed her a drink, or whatever else Elizabeth might prefer.
A scarf? Who knew what Elizabeth would like? A gun, probably.
Chris opens a folder. “Ian Ventham’s death was caused by fentanyl poisoning.
A massive overdose, delivered into the muscle of his upper arm, almost certainly in the moments leading up to his collapse.
You’ll tell by the speed that this is not official; this is me calling in a favor, okay?
And they see enough fentanyl overdoses at the path lab these days to know one when they see one.
We’re the only people who have that piece of information at present, so let’s keep it that way as long as we can, please. No press, no friends and family.”
He gives Donna the briefest of looks.