Denise Mina

Confidence

Laura Dobie

She turns slowly to a white marble fireplace topped with a massive painting of St Sebastian shot through with arrows. In a better painting by a better artist he'd be looking heavenward in an ecstasy of faith, but it's not very good and he looks like an exasperated supply teacher.

‘Very expensive, portable things do tend to be cursed, I've noticed.'

And the two incidents were more than twenty years apart, a long time for an individual to hold the same grudge. Even maniacs get bored and move on to other projects.

I could see him as a glowering international drug smuggler and yet here he was, in the world of podcasting with us, like Pablo Escobar volunteering at a local preschool.

On the other hand, said Fin, Bram was not a fit man and murder was probably a prohibitive amount of cardio for him.

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