Murder in the Cemetery: A Lady Margaret Turnbull Cozy Mystery Book (International Cozy Mystery Series 3) by C T Mitchell

Author:C T Mitchell [Mitchell, C T]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Murder in the Cemetery
Publisher: Wood Duck Media
Published: 2015-08-26T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

On the way back to the station with Lady Maggie, Tom phoned the former Helen Pemberthy to ask her if she thought Thomas could ever act upon his nightmares. Apparently they were often about harming his sister, and Helen couldn’t be sure. She hadn’t ever seen any signs of acting out on them, but she wouldn’t consider it impossible.

Detective Sullivan concluded to Maggie that this behavior probably contributed to his homelessness. The psychologist also called and let the two of them know that Thomas did have a deep-seated childhood trauma, along with some schizophrenia.

“You know,” Maggie said as they drove. “Maybe they found each other by accident? Twins can find each other while being blindfolded, you know.”

“I think you’re right, Maggie. I think that Thomas Kilkane killed his sister, and has no recollection of it due to the schizophrenia. His alter ego just doesn’t acknowledge that it happened, because to him…it didn’t. The poor guy, can you imagine not remembering doing anything, much less murdering your sister?!”

“So how do you think it happened, Detective?” Maggie tried to keep the conversation light because normally she enjoyed this part. The look on that girl’s face, though, still haunted her.

“I hope we get to know, Lady Margaret. It could be months before he assumes his other personality. That’s the only real way to get any information out of him.”

Several months later, Inspector Sullivan was interrupted during his morning coffee at the police station. Detective Hodges walked up to his desk and handed him a statement. It was from Thomas’s alter ego, and he had given his testimony of what had happened that night in the crypt.

Apparently, as the statement read, Thomas was begging on the street for alms when his sister walked by and dropped some coins into his bucket. He didn’t recognize her face at all, and the detectives concluded that Valerie suffered from the same schizophrenia that Thomas did because she didn’t appear to have recognized him either.

The two of them would have passed in silence, as two ships not even acknowledging each other’s presence, were it not for a small spark. Though Thomas didn’t recognize her face, since she’d had facial reconstruction surgery, he did recognize her hand. Something about the way her hand twisted and let her wrist be exposed, he remembered it from the years of being tormented by her as a child, and something inside of him snapped.

Under the pretext of forgiving his sister and forgetting the past, he took her to their parents’ crypt. She went willingly, and Thomas believed that was because she wanted to return to the abusive sister he always knew her to be.

She was stuck in a semi-healthy cycle where she could at least hold down a steady relationship and get through life. When she saw Thomas, though, and saw that familiar vulnerable look in his eye, she snapped back to being her sinister self.

Thomas believed that she would attack him again, and when they neared their parents’ tomb, he took her inside and killed her before she got the chance to harm him.

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