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The Witness List
DI Frank Ollerton is fifty-six and has twenty-eight years in Wrenfield CID, eleven of them as a detective inspector, and he owns Unit 4 of the Fall Street lock-ups with the flat above it let to a woman at five hundred and twenty-five pounds a month.
- ~251 min (estimated)
- 55245 words
- 119 scenes
- 16 branch points
- 5 endings
40 recorded plays (one per visitor per day)
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About
On the first page he comes out into the gravel car park in the rain because she is on the step with a black bin bag, and he says out loud, in the first sentence, that he was wrong. She says out loud that she has known he was since about eleven o'clock that morning in a custody corridor. Then she goes up the stairs and he goes to his car, and neither of them has any idea what happens next, and what happens next is four months in which almost nothing happens. Christine Marlow is fifty-two. She was twenty-four, she was arrested on the sixteenth of November 1998, and she served eleven months at HMP Wrayburn for the killing of Dion Hesketh, thirty-eight, in the rear office of Unit 9 on the same car park where she is now standing with a bin bag. She was three weeks out of Wrayburn when she came back to Wrenfield to look after her mother, and she has been here since, working shifts at the leisu
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- A wrongful conviction and eleven months of imprisonment that are never given back
- A custody suite, a strip search, and the specific detail of a wrist
- A written sexual scene between consenting adults in their fifties
- A professional misconduct hearing and the loss of a career
- A death in 1998, referred to and not depicted
- A housing form that asks about convictions in a tick-box
- A son who will not ask his mother a question
- A name that is said out loud four times in a book and does not repair anything
Cast
- F Frank Ollerton Detective inspector, Wrenfield CID, the officer who arrested and charged her in 1998, and viewpoint character no portrait yet
- B Beatriz Marlow Tenant of Flat 4A, cleaner and reception at Wrenfield Leisure Centre at eleven pounds forty an hour, convicted in 1999 and the person he said he was wrong about no portrait yet
- W Warren Pike Civilian records and enquiries clerk, the man who typed the 1998 witness list and who opens the reinvestigation in week nine no portrait yet
- N Nuala Priest Detective sergeant, Wrenfield CID, the officer in the reinvestigation, and the person who pulled a 1998 custody record she had no authority to pull no portrait yet
- C Colin Rowntree Row thirty-two. Hesketh's partner in a haulage firm, of nineteen Yarrow Lane, who was traced on 19 November 1998 and has never been interviewed no portrait yet