Nursery: a place which grows plants, shrubs and trees for sale (often wholesale)
Owt: anything
Pay-as-you-go: a cell phone you pay for calls in advance
PC: police constable
Pear-shaped: go wrong
Petrol: gasoline
Piss off: as exclamation, go away (rude). Also can mean annoy.
Pissing down: raining
Pleb: ordinary person (often insulting)
Portakabin: portable building used as temporary office etc.
Planning Department: the local authority department which issues licences to build and develop property
Premier League: top English soccer division
Prom: a classical music concert where some of the audience stands
Punter: someone who gambles in a betting shop
Pushchair: stroller
Querent: person for whom the tarot card reading is done
Rag: newspaper
Ram-raiding: robbery where a vehicle is rammed through a shop window
Randy: horny
Right state: messy
Ring: telephone (verb)
Roadworks: repairs done to roads
Scally: scallywag
Scroat: low life
Semi: Semi-detached house, house with another house joined to it on one side only
Shedload: a large amount
Shout the odds: talk in a loud bossy way
Sixth form college: school for high school students in final two years.
SIO: senior investigating officer
Skip: a large open container used for building waste
Slapper: slag
SOCO: scenes of crime officer, police officer who gathers forensic evidence
Sod: an annoying person
Sort: to do or make
Solicitor: lawyer
Stunner: beautiful woman
Super: superintendent (police rank)
Sweeting: endearment, like sweetheart
Tabloid: newspaper
Tea: dinner (Northern English)
Tenner: ten-pound note
Till: cash register
Tipsy: a bit drunk
Toerag: a bad person
Ton: a hundred pounds
Torch: flashlight
Tutor: university teacher
Tower block: tall building/ high rise containing apartments (usually social housing)
Undertaker: mortician
Upmarket: affluent or fancy
Wash: the washing machine
Water board: company supplying water to an area
Wheelie bin: a large refuse bin on wheels
White van man: typical working-class man who drives a small truck
CHARACTER LIST
DI Mathew Brindle
Set to inherit the Brindle estate. He always wanted to work in CID and joined the police when he left university. He reached the rank the DI in the East Pennine CID. His partner was DS Paula Wright. The two got on and worked well together.
A serious incident, where Matt was badly injured and his partner Paula killed, put paid to his career. Tall and wiry, Matt used to run. However the injuries he sustained in the incident has left him with a limp. He is thirty-five, unmarried and not in a relationship.
Evelyn Brindle
Matt’s mother is in her fifties. She is a snob, mostly due to being ‘Lady’ Brindle as her deceased husband was given a knighthood for services to charity. She lives at Brindle Hall with Matt. Evelyn does not understand why things have to change. Evelyn does not agree with Matt’s plans to open the hall to the public, but neither does she want him in CID either.
Sarah Brindle
Matt’s younger sister. She lives in the village of Hepworth close to the hall. She has two young children and a failed marriage.
DC Lily Haines
Lily has recently joined CID. During her short career she has been moved from one station to another. She is young, local and comes from a broken home. Lily feels that she doesn’t fit in. Something she shares with Matt. Although very different, in background and lifestyle, the two get on very well.
Superintendent Talbot Dyson
He is in his late fifties, overweight and does things his way. He is a no-frills, say it like it is, detective. He knows and likes Matt. He once held a torch for Evelyn, but once she knew he could progress no further up the career ladder, she ditched him.
Bella Richards
Bella’s only family are her five-year-old son, Oliver, and her Aunt Agnes. For the last two years Bella has worked at a local college. She is having an affair with a married colleague, Alan Fisher. She is a major part of the case as it unfolds.
DS Ian Beckwith
He has recently been transferred to the Huddersfield station from Halifax. He is keen to get on, but has been paired with the workshy DI Frank Carlisle. The more he sees of Brindle and his methods, the more he wants to work with him.
DI Frank Carlisle
Recently transferred to Huddersfield with DS Beckwith. Where work is concerned, he does as little as he can get away with. He does not like Matt much.
Robert Nolan
A solicitor and a neighbour of Alan Fisher’s.
Joel Dawson
He works with Bella at the local college. He likes Bella but she finds him creepy. When she loses Alan he tries to comfort her. He recently lost his wife.
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