Creative Writing: An Inspector Calls

In the distance, the phone is ringing away , pulling deputy director , Lydia Keller out of her mind and back into the station office. Lydia quickly picks the phone up and presses talk, “Deputy director Keller speaking”, a male voice replies,“ma’am, it's constable stilinski” the officer says " we have an emergency and Detective Deyes requests your presence immediately" Lydia let's out a soft breath, whatever's happened must be bad if she is needed at the scene. “whats happened?” She asked. There's a brief pause before stilinski answers "... we have a triple homicide and it's .. messy" Lydia remains expressionless, there's no place for emotions in a job like this “I'll be there right away” Lydia says, hanging up the phone. Lydia briskly walks

Destroying the perfect picture of suburbia are the dozens of police cars out the front and the federal officers walking in and out of the house. Lydia walks up the gravel driveway, ducking under the police tape as she makes her way to the door and is greeted at the door by Detective Deyes, “glad you’re here” he says, pushing sweaty black hair off his forehead, “We have a triple homicide, the CSI unit are still collecting evidence, i’ll show you the bodies” he says while handing Lydia gloves, she nods as she slips the gloves and they walk inside. They walk to the master-bedroom where a woman’s body is laying on the bed, she's almost unrecognisable because of her mutilated body, covered in blood. Deyes turns to her “ the medical examiner believes the cause of death is the result of multiple strikes to the body with a blunt object but her throat has also been split so far that she's almost been decapitated” Lydia purses her lips “ what about the other two?”, Deyes leads her up the stairs as he talks “ two young teenagers were also murdered, each shot once, execution style,” Lydia leans against the hallway wall, why would anyone want to murder an innocent family?. Lydia turns to Deyes “ have the victims been identified ?” Deyes nods, and points to a family photo hanging opposite them on the wall, “ an officer knows the family” he says gesturing to the picture, “ they're the