She hadn’t even thought about what she was doing. She swept up with her arm, driving into his forearm and knocking it away from her. Then she jabbed her other fist into his stomach with a lightning quick punch, knocking the breath out of him.

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“My roommate hasn’t been here since yesterday, and she matches the description of the victim I saw in the paper,” she said to the person manning the phone bank.

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“Where’s Mommy?” Jimmy said as his dad walked into the living room of the cabin. He had been sitting on the floor playing with Legos with Miss Takanata.

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There was an unexpected dip in the road, tossing the car off balance. The bend in the road was ever so slight, but it was enough for the Corvette to careen out of control. The rear end swung right, then snapped back left, throwing the car at the guardrail. It clipped the end of the barrier and spun over the edge, sliding toward the lower switchback.

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Facing the wall of doors, knowing that each of them may have a dead body behind it… Melody shivered. Marlow reached forward, unlatching one of the doors and sliding out the drawer with a body covered in a sheet. He peeled the sheet back, revealing her face.

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As she looked through the story that had caught her attention, she noted that a young woman, blonde, early to mid-twenties, had been murdered near Lee Circle. She had been wearing a rose-colored skirt and ivory blouse and a jacket matching the skirt had been found nearby, but police were searching for a clue as to the woman’s identity. The murder shared similarities to three other murders that had happened a couple of years prior.

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