Scumbags

“Any CCTV of the driver?” Whitestone asked. “I’m still looking, Ma’am,” Billy said. “So we’re assuming the owner of the thirteenth passport wasn’t driving?” I said. “It’s unlikely,” Whitestone said. “Because the owner of the thirteenth passport is a woman and the drivers who smuggle in illegals are all men. At least, that’s how it has been until now. It’s not an equal opportunities profession. Find the thirteenth woman and then you find the driver. Find the driver and you find the scumbags who run the whole stinking operation.”

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Westminister Public Mortuary

Opened in 2008 to be used exclusively for post-mortem exams of suspicious deaths - the first of its kind in London to be used specifically for this purpose.

Elsa

A favourite of Mallory’s, Elsa provides the expertise on the unusual nature of the deaths. Wolfe first encounters her at the Iain West Forensic Suite as she guides them over the two corpses on the cold steel table. She is candid and refuses to speculate, conducting herself with the grace of a dinner hostess, and quickly endears herself to Wolfe providing him with another important ally in the course of his investigation.

Chapter 5

The temperature was just kept above zero in here. Beyond an impatience to get started, I felt nothing when I looked at the bodies. Their spirits had flown. Now there were just the living in this freezing room, and two brutalised empty husks.