Before She Dies by Mary Burton

Author:Mary Burton [Burton, Mary]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, Suspense, Fiction
ISBN: 9781420110210
Publisher: Zebra
Published: 2012-01-30T13:00:00+00:00

It was past 1 a.m. when Grady was able to sit at his desk and plow through the night’s earnings. Judging by the stack of cash and credit card receipts, it had been a very good night. He’d known Sooner would be the draw that he needed. The girl was just coming into her own, and her beauty and her talent with people could make her a grand draw for years to come.

Years to come.

He reached for the tumbler full of whiskey and drained half of it.

He didn’t have years. He had months if he was lucky.

He glanced at the piles of cash, skimmed a couple hundred of the smaller bills away, and shoved them in his pocket. He wrote up the bank deposit slip, which he’d drop off in the morning.

When his work was complete, he glanced at the clock. Three fourteen. He should be tired. The doc in Nashville had told him to sleep more. But his head buzzed. Sleep had become harder and harder in the last year, and tonight he’d be lucky to get an hour or two. Glancing at his unmade bunk with a bit of resentment, he rose and moved to the window that overlooked the carnival. A few trailers remained lit up, and the sound of music drifted from Buster’s trailer, but all in all the place was quiet.

He moved to the safe, opened the door, and dropped in the bank deposit bag. He was about to close the safe door when he spotted the folder in the bottom. Digging it out, he locked the safe and went to the dinette. He refilled his scotch before he sat down.

Opening the file, he leafed through the yellowed newspaper articles. WOMAN FOUND SLAIN, Raleigh. HIKER DROWNED, Charleston. WOMAN RAPED AND MURDERED,

Nashville. There were at least two dozen articles like these three. All featured women in the Southeast who’d been kidnapped, held, and then violently murdered.

The cities and times had been scattered enough that the cops in the different jurisdictions did not realize they were dealing with the same killer. But he knew.

Slowly, he turned each article over and over until he reached the last that he’d clipped out just days ago.

The article featured Diane Young.

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