I'm looking at the finish line for my manuscript, so I thought I would share the opening of a chapter about three quarters the way through. Tell me what you think.
Darryl and
Angela stared at the incident board.
‘Uniform
tomorrow, Boss?’
‘Ah...’
Angela continued to post information from the Hammond Road murders on the board, Cassidy was lost in thought. He kept staring into the face of Joe’s attacker. ‘Sorry?’ he said.
Angela continued to post information from the Hammond Road murders on the board, Cassidy was lost in thought. He kept staring into the face of Joe’s attacker. ‘Sorry?’ he said.
‘What
should I wear tomorrow? Uniform, or plain clothes.’
‘Plain
clothes, let’s do our best to emulate our city cousins. Otherwise, they’ll brush
us off as country hicks.’
‘Works
for me, Sir.’ She thought about the suit she had bought at the beginning of
summer and hadn’t worn yet. ‘Tomorrow, clothes will maketh the woman.’ She
said.
‘Yeah...
Okay.’ Darryl was deep within his mind again. He walked to the window and searched
the streetscape, hoping for inspiration.
‘Boss,’
he didn’t hear her, ‘Boss?’
Cassidy
didn’t look back. ‘You’re the computer whiz, overlay the photo of those tyre
tracks,’ he tapped the board, ‘and the ones near the gate where Jeff found the
ute. Can you do that?’
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