A minute to think, that's all Sam's asking for. Three open cases, one of 'em a murder that's got some political pressure behind it, and Sam hasn't slept in what feels like days ( Read more... )

A day at the station with the lads, dinner with Gene and Barbara, a nightcap with Annie (and a 'nightcap', too). It's the same old daily round, keeping a man busy enough so's he can't get into too much trouble. It ought to leave Sam pleasantly sleepy, waking up only to nab a glass of water or a quick kiss from the missus ( Read more... )

DCI Sam Tyler knows he's had worse days. Somewhere.

Somewhen.

(It's a nice thing to think, anyway, something that'd be comforting at any other time -- not 1973, for instance -- like it always is.)

But at 2 in the morning, in a flat he's never seen before in this life or the next, when the professor on the telly is talking to him but not hearing ( Read more... )