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It’s always darkest before the dawn.

End of watch is what they call it, but Hodges himself has found it impossible to give up watching.

‘How did I get into this?’ he moans.

‘The way everybody gets into everything,’ Brady says gently. ‘One step at a time.’

The fucking suicide prince.

‘I’m a fast reader. But you know what I didn’t find?’

‘I’m guessing anything to do with suicide.’

‘Yes. So how did she know about the helium thing? For that matter, how did she know to dissolve those pills in vodka and put them in her daughter’s feeding tube?’

‘Well,’ Hodges says, ‘there’s this ancient arcane ritual called reading books. You may have heard of it.’