Before we begin, I want you to know that I never meant to kill Joyce. It was an accident. Claire, on the other hand – her I really did mean to kill.’Leonard sat back in his chair and stared at the sheet of paper in his hands: A4, double spaced, Times New Roman 12 point, exactly the same as every other submission from his students.Well, except for that idiot David Fettes, who always insisted on using Comic Sans and was in for a nasty surprise when the end-of-term marks came in.No, the formatting was nothing unusual.And while it was solid enough, as opening paragraphs go, that wasn’t what made the air thicken in his small shared office.