The Heights

He had come to rest in front of a metre-high maquette of the Heights, sealed in a glass display case. Sir Ian is the recipient of four Crime Writers’ Association Dagger Awards, including the Diamond Dagger, the UK’s most prestigious award for crime fiction. The chief had been informed and would now have to pass along to his superiors the news that a whole team of investigators had somehow missed a body in the vicinity of what was already an active crime scene. Milton was supposed to be getting Phoebe’s number from Mick Bentham, but she was pretty sure a car chase in the company of the National Crime Agency would have shunted the idea out of his head.