Even now, when she was in the Penrith and Lakes hospital, Kelly couldn’t entirely settle around the nurses. And if the truth be known, the nurses found it difficult to settle around her: she was a constant reminder of the shame Amy Richmond had brought on their profession.
The Trust had introduced new measures to vet staff, and CCTV had been installed inside drug stores and private rooms. Some thought it an invasion of privacy, but others – like Kelly – believed that if they’d had it before, they might be able to prove that Catherine Tring had been helped on her way to a death even the palliative team didn’t expect so soon.
She looked at the envelope in her hands and opened it.
It contained a folded piece of paper and Kelly knew that it was handwritten. She opened it and her hands began to shake. It had been sent from Broadmoor in Berkshire.
It read, ‘Dear Kelly, I do hope you are well, I think of you often. How is your mother? I always liked her. I’ve sent you one of my favourite poems…’
Kelly dropped the letter. She’d seen the handwriting a thousand times before.
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First published in the United Kingdom in 2018 by Canelo
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Copyright © Rachel Lynch, 2018
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ISBN 9781788630177
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places and events are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.
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