Frenzy by John Lutz

Author:John Lutz
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Mystery, Thrillers & Suspense, Crime, Suspense, Serial Killers, Crime Fiction, Thrillers, Thriller & Suspense
ISBN: 0786028300
Publisher: Constable
Published: 2014-10-15T11:00:00+00:00

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Prentis, Florida, 1995

“Let me out of the damned car, Dwayne!”

Honey Carter was twenty and blond and beautiful. Dwayne was well aware that she resembled both his mother and Maude, reflecting his father’s taste in women.

Honey had something else in common with those two women. She didn’t love Dwayne, and never had.

She’d gone out with him a few times and then rebuffed him, called him a rich freak.

Well, she might as well have called him that. She’d made him feel that way.

What did she want? He was young and reasonably good looking. Rich, but how could she count that against him? And he carried a 3.9 grade point average at the University of South Florida. Higher education was a snap for him. Read the book (on or off his computer) in a single sitting, then relax and ace the course.

Not that he was going back. College bored the hell out of him. And some people began giving him odd looks, fearful looks, and avoided him. Rumors bloomed even if they couldn’t take root. Others on campus had found out who he was, and about the murder of his father and stepmother-to-be.

This last part actually attracted a certain kind of woman to him—as long as there were other people in the room. Rumors, rumors, rumors about him. Some of them must be true. And if he was rich, he was probably guilty. Wasn’t that the way it always worked?

This final attempt to save his and Honey’s relationship (at least as Dwayne saw it) wasn’t working out very well. They were in his car on dark and isolated Lagoon Road. It had seemed romantic to Dwayne, a perfect setting for reviving a love affair showing signs of strain.

Until the sun went down.

Now they were surrounded by darkness. He was amused. Honey was faced with the classic dilemma: stay and screw, or get out of the car and be in grave danger. He wanted to see how she’d deal with the problem.

She was pretending now, he was sure. Showing him she didn’t take that kind of treatment from anyone, male or female. But it was all a show.

He used the car’s lighter to fire up a cigarette, took a deep drag, and leaned his head back so he was staring up at the headliner, thinking about what he might do with the cigarette’s glowing ember.

“Do you really want to get out of the car here?” Dwayne asked.

Honey lost her focus on him, and suddenly realized how dark it had become.

“There are gators out there,” Dwayne said. “And python snakes.”

People in the area had kept pythons as pets until they got too big and dangerous. Then they set them loose in the swamp, where they thrived and multiplied. There had been state sponsored hunting seasons on the pythons. Many of the snakes were over twenty feet long. They were still out there. Now and then there were stories in the Florida papers. Along with photographs.

Honey, a journalism major, read the papers.

“Drive me goddamned home!” Honey demanded.

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