Matt had gotten out of the hospital after being shot and had been ordered to take time off to recover. Now that they had both gotten past the shock of his being hurt and the hardest part of his healing, Martina felt comfortable playing around with him a bit more. As evidenced by how she crawled into their bed and decided to wake him up with a ( Read more... )

Martina didn't speak to her family, so every Thanksgiving she opened her house to her close friends. There was Jason, of course. Her old partner, Michael Hamilton. Her new partner, Tony Maxwell, and his fiancee. She'd invited Matt, but she wasn't sure if he would show. She just moved about the flat trying to get the place in order as her friends

It's pretty damn lonely in Cardiff.

Martina had good instincts (being a DI and all), and her instincts had told her that this fifth date with Devin was going to be important. She had taken care to break out her little black dress that he liked, and do her best to look perfect. She really liked this guy, and she hoped that important was a good thing. Tony was convinced maybe he was ( Read more... )

Martina was not the kind to really go out and date. Tony went out, and hung out with his friends, and might have actually had a girlfriend. Not that Martina noticed or cared. Or that they talked much about such things. But when she told her young partner that she had dinner plans in London, he was all too happy to accomodate her. She couldn't help ( Read more... )

Said he was a lawyer. Smartass.

11:50 pm
residence of jason bates & martina landen"This is really bothering you, isn't it, Marti?" Jason asked her as they laid in bed. Neither of them were that tired, and the BBC had run out of programming long ago, so they were sitting up talking. He'd asked about work, and she'd stumbled through it with much less grace than usual, which had ( Read more... )

7:50 am
cid division
central cardiff police headquartersTony Maxwell was always early. In the eight months since she had been assigned to him, Martina had come to expect that. He was never due for morning roll call until eight, but at seven-fifty he was always walking in, perfectly coiffed hair and that cheerful smile on his face. It never failed. ( Read more... )

Martina Landen is a Detective Inspector (DI) with the South Wales Police, working in the Criminal Investigations Division (CID) out of Central Cardiff Headquarters. Previously, she held the same position for nine years with the Lothian and Borders Police, working out of A Division, at the St. Leonard's Police Station in Edinburgh ( Read more... )