Chapter 143

• BRIAN POV
• I rarely drink, especially not on a week night, but completing my final writeup and filing Moona’s case notes into the archive room is more than enough to drive me to a few after work. I tidy my desk and take one final look at Moona’s muddy boot prints before shutting down my PC for the day.
• None of us here are miracle workers. We do our best, but not every case in our books has a happy ending. I’ve watched kids grow into adults with even bigger challenges than the ones they faced in the chair opposite me. I’ve lost good kids to a life of drugs in Bristol or Birmingham once they’ve taken a one-way ticket out of our sleepy county for pastures new. You hear about them, the ones who didn’t make it. It’s not a rare event that we get enquiries from lawyers and prosecutors digging for background information for their criminal cases.