Some day I would like to write a textbook on how to be a female detective in a man's world. Rule Number One: try not to let your animosity show. Your career as an investigator will be short lived if you cannot hide your feelings when you dislike, distrust, or despise your interviewee.

Usually in life, the prospect of a dreaded event is worse than the event itself, nothing being good or bad but thinking makes it so.

I seethed but refused to be ruffled.