And if I didn’t have an alibi…

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The first meeting with the police on a murder investigation can go well or it can go badly.  Michael’s first meeting with Detective Chief Inspector Davis and Detective Sargeant Bains went badly, but that was more to do with his short temper and the fact they were wasting time on him.

There was no possible way he could have done anything, but the police were more interested in the fact he didn’t show up anywhere in official documentation, and Michael had to admit his passion for staying off the grid, was only going to make matters difficult.

Being escorted to an interview room at the nearby police station was the last thing he expected.  Perhaps it was the sudden discovery that someone had deliberately and callously killed her that made him angry, and it was always going to be directed at someone.

Why not the police.

His friends had said that it might not be a good idea to give them a hard time.

Good advice, given at the wrong time.

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