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Detective Superintendent Brownlee and Detective Inspector Alice Hall had fled Cambridge two months ago. They hadn’t left under a cloud, exactly, but under the suffocating, systemic fallout of the case they had cracked. The Minsters’ demise—a decade- long exposure of white-collar crime—had been brutal, but the Volkov affair had been a global financial tsunami.It started innocently enough, a routine fraud investigation that ballooned into discovering a deep-reaching global cabal that had been quietly manipulating currency markets and asset values. When they pulled the thread, the entire financial tapestry of the Western world unravelled. The shockwaves were catastrophic and ongoing. Andy and Alice, the whistle-blowers by necessity, were left standing in the ash of their reputation, the collateral damage immense.Their superiors had suggested a long sabbatical. They took early retirement from the fraud division and accepted highly paid, but profoundly tedious, regional investigative roles in Walberswick’s small, underfunded police department.It was basically Witness Protection, disguised as a career change.