It's Not What You Think

A woman.’ She mustn’t hold anything back, even if it makes the police think badly of Jamie. ‘Whoever it was would have been the last person to see Jamie alive. He doesn’t have children, Nadeeka thinks, before she remembers that he is a police officer, and so this is a police car, and the reason she’s in a police car is because her boyfriend is . . . Jamie sees the confusion and hurt on Nadeeka’s face when he turns away from her at night, but he can’t bring himself to accept her embrace when he’s leading a double life, and he can’t tell her the truth. It had been Alan who had sorted the body in the end.