Final Second: A completely unputdownable action thriller (A Grant Fletcher Thriller Book 2) by John Ryder

Author:John Ryder [Ryder, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781838887971
Publisher: Bookouture
Published: 2020-10-04T16:00:00+00:00

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Fletcher taped the large-scale maps to the walls of his motel room and used the packs of sticky notes he’d also bought to mark out certain places. The first thing he marked were the farms where the attacks had taken place. Next he drew on approximations of the tracks that had been found at the Greenacres and White Birch farms.

Seeing the farms delineated on a map gave him a far better overview. The crossroads bisecting the farms was on perfect compass point alignment. Greenacres was between north and east while White Birch was in the south and west quadrant.

As he worked, Fletcher would pick up a notebook and add a question or two to add to the email destined for Quadrado’s inbox. He had not yet had a response from her regarding the profiler and he wasn’t holding out a lot of hope, but if you didn’t ask, you didn’t get.

With the homicide sites marked, Fletcher reviewed everything he knew about the first two homicides. He went over all the notes he’d taken, reread every email he’d been sent and recounted all the conversations he’d had since arriving in Medford.

None of the information he recapped gave a new clue or a different perspective on any of the ideas he’d already pursued.

To approach from a different tack, he put in a call to Peter Quadrado and got a list of as many of the farms afflicted by an attack as Peter could remember. Some of the details he heard could be regular bad luck or mishaps, but in the greater context, there was a similarity to a lot of the issues. Fires, machinery breakdowns due to a failing that shouldn’t have happened and petty incidents like the tanks which held the milk having their coolers switched off causing the milk to spoil. The Quadrado farm, Meadowfields, had also suffered a couple of incidents.

The one constant with the alleged attacks was the lack of harm to any of the affected farms’ livestock. One or two humans had received minor injuries when repairing damage or extinguishing fires, but not one human or animal had received any direct harm from the attacks.

Due to the number of incidents, Fletcher dropped the sticky notes on the bed and lifted a red pen from the collection of stationery he’d picked up. A circle was placed around every farm to have suffered an attack in the last few months.

The more he worked, the more crowded the map became. Some farms had two circles and one had three.

When he’d finished the extensive list, Fletcher took a step back to get an overview. What he saw didn’t fill him with confidence.

There was a definite grouping on the farms within five miles of the crossroads, but there were also incidents several miles further away. Some of the examples away from the general area occurred in clumps whereas others were adrift of the nearest victim by at least four miles. By far the worst affected farm in terms of attacks was Calvertsholm,

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