HELL'S HALF ACRE a gripping murder mystery full of twists (Coffin Cove Mysteries Book 2) by JACKIE ELLIOTT

Author:JACKIE ELLIOTT [ELLIOTT, JACKIE]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Joffe Books crime mystery, thriller and suspense
Published: 2021-05-10T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

Kevin Wildman sniffed. Something was wrong. The smell had intensified. He’d ignored the unpleasant odour in his apartment for how long? A day? Maybe two, he thought. Yeah, two days. He’d been too busy checking forums and blog sites on his laptop, and there were so many now, it was hard to keep up. So much important information the government was hiding from everybody. He had to be ready. There would be a revolution. A day of reckoning, he was sure.

Daylight was showing through the threadbare curtains Kevin kept closed at all times. When he’d found this apartment, it was the perfect place to crash. But now he was worried he was being watched. He knew he was being watched. The red light on the camera attached to the Smoke Room at the end of the strip mall was always glowing.

It was hard to see, because Kevin’s apartment was all the way at the far end of the strip mall. Kevin’s “apartment” was a ramshackle affair built over the Coffin Cove Bookstore. All the other stores had flat roofs, but at some time in the past, someone had tried to make a little living space above this one. At first Kevin had been delighted with the clear view of the Smoke Room and the parking lot from the small side window, like a sentry guard in a tower. But now he wasn’t so sure. If he could see everybody, maybe everybody could see him? He felt exposed. And now, the red light seemed to be angled towards him. Kevin tried to keep out of view, making sure the curtain was always pulled closed, and crawling around the two rooms on all fours. He’d stopped leaving the apartment unless it was absolutely necessary. When he had first noticed the red light, he’d investigated at different times during the day, running down the stairs at the back of the apartment and along the overgrown parking lot to the Smoke Room, gazing up at the camera to see if the light was still on.

Now Kevin knew that was a mistake. He’d given away his location. Now they knew where he was. Ricky had vanished ages ago. But they were still watching him.

Kevin had spent many hours fixated on the small red halo. Whenever the Wi-Fi signal from the nearby trailer park dropped out, Kevin would crouch down below the grimy window, making notes of his observations. He was sure the red light blinked at him sometimes. He just didn’t know what it meant.

Kevin stood up shakily. It was possible the smell was coming from him. He’d smoked a lot of weed, popped some pills. He must have eaten. There were pizza boxes scattered on the floor. But he wasn’t certain how long they had been there. And it was hard to keep clean here. The water was still on and the toilet could flush, although it had been blocked for some time. It had overflowed, and all his piss and shit and

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