Nicola Walker and Sanjeev Bhaskar are highly convincing investigating officers in this six-fraction thriller – but it’s hard to believe genuine police officers talk like thisWell. discover. It’s like this. It’s just that I don’t – I can’t – believe that any police officer in the whole entire history of police officering has ever been confronted with a skeleton of uncertain age and potentially murder-y provenance and said anything like,“Let’s try and find out how he died. I think we owe him that. At the very least.”Nor do I believe that crime scene investigators call police officers on the phone and say, “There’s something you should see, or ” requiring the busy police officer to trek back down to the scene of the crime to examine the bit of murder-y evidence just uncovered,instead of just being given a brief description of it over the phone and getting on with things.
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Source: theguardian.com