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Epigraph

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The first time I met Karen Nichols, she struck me…

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Cody Falk drove a pearl-gray Audi Quattro, and at nine-thirty…

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It would be six months before I gave any serious…

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When I walked through his front door with Tony Traverna,…

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What we presume about strangers when we first meet them…

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The inside of Pickup on South Street, David Wetterau’s fledgling…

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I called Devin again, woke him up.

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Karen Nichols’s mother and stepfather, Carrie and Christopher Dawe, lived…

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Dr. Christopher Dawe stood in his doorway and watched me…

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Cody Falk rose at six-thirty the next morning and stood…

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I did several quick squats to return blood to my…

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The priest who presided over the noon mass at Saint…

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The Holly Martens Inn sat fifty yards off an overgrown,…

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There was a barn out back, about three hundred yards…

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I had taken my work to a bar when Angie…

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Dr. Diane Bourne’s office was housed on the second floor…

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I called Bubba from the car. “What are you doing?”

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Miles Lovell left his house shortly after sundown as the…

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Three days after Miles Lovell was admitted to ICU, Dr. Diane Bourne…

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Rain fell softly on sun-drenched streets the afternoon I met…

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I turned in my chair, looked into the restaurant for…

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The morning after I had my encounter with Wesley in…

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Bubba can barely read or write. He has just enough…

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On Monday we went to work in earnest. Angie planned…

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“So where you parked, Wes?” I asked as we left…

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“That’s her,” I said as Siobhan walked down the Dawes’…

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Information about Wesley, or the man who called himself Wesley,…

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“I want to burn him alive,” I said to Angie…

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I spent the week sitting on Scott Pearse—following him to…

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Angie woke me at five in the morning, warm palms…

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“He keeps files on everyone,” Siobhan said. “He has a…

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The next morning, as Scott Pearse loaded mail into a…

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Last night, as soon as the police had passed him…

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“We’re driving to Plymouth,” Angie said as we turned onto…

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Christopher Dawe drove home to his wife with instructions to…

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I was in the hospital for five weeks. The bullet…

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“Mr. Kenzie,” Wesley said when I found him down by…


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