Sam Kitchener
Paper Trails
A young City worker tells detectives that he has been shot by somebody in a vintage car; but the first person to find the victim remembers him describing the car as ‘ochre’:
– Ochre?
– Ochre.
– Are you sure?
– Yes.
Hawthorn looked at Child. He was grinning.
– Do you think he might have said old car?
– Old car?
– Old car.
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