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As the elder berates her child for being a “bad bad girl,” the reader will hear the echoes of her own mother’s chastisements, a song of intergenerational despair.

Sometimes he sounds almost rushed, peppering his narration with “so forths,” and making his readers play odds-or-evens to attribute long stretches of dialogue.

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To make that understandable and realistic for the reader, I’ve interviewed many British police professionals, from detectives to press officers to constables on the street.

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