SUSPICIOUS MINDS
Murder was a frequent subject for discussion at the Thornes’ glamorous dinner parties, even a 50th birthday celebration. This wasn’t surprising, with so many of them being affiliated to the law, although right now, high on champagne and basking in the softening glow of candlelight, they were running at a slight tangent.
‘I’m telling you, it’s true,’ Hugh Hennessy, bestselling author of crime fiction, insisted. ‘There’s been a study and it turns out career criminals have smaller brains than the rest of us.’
Everyone laughed and scoffed, poured more wine into their glasses and sank more deeply into the easy contentment of the warm spring evening.
‘If you ask me,’ Elinor Hennessy, divorce lawyer, remarked, ‘it’s philandering men who have the smallest brains. This is demonstrated in
