A procedural crime novel rated MATURE. Frank Ollerton is 56, Beatriz Marlow is 52, Warren Pike is 61, Nuala Priest is 41, Colin Rowntree is 62, Janice Rowntree is 60, Ewan Marlow is 26, Owen Tilley is 58, and Vinod Marleigh is 57. Dion Hesketh was 38 and is dead in 1998. Every named and speaking character is an adult and the youngest is 26. No minor appears in any role, memory, photograph, joke, or future reference. Sexual content is written on the page between Frank Ollerton and Beatriz Marlow, both adults, who say out loud what they want and what stops it before anything begins, and either of them can stop it with one word. It is specific to these two people and to what happened to her in a custody suite in 1998, and it is not a reward: it is followed in the next scene by the most expensive sentence either of them says. Violence: one man is dead of a single blow in 1998, the blow is referred to and not depicted, the method is not described, and no image of a body appears anywhere. A strip search on a woman of 24 is described, referred to repeatedly across the book, and is not depicted. Prejudice appears as a class assumption about a lock-up garage and a council flat, and as a housing officer's tick-box, and is shown only in what people do with it. No slur is written. No drug is named or described. The conviction is never quashed in any ending and the eleven months are never returned. Nobody apologises twice. Wrenfield, Fall Street, Harrowdale, Nethermoor, Wrayburn and the Harrowdale Valley school-transport contract are invented. No content in this project is generated or fetched at build time.