The Good Killer by Harry Dolan

Author:Harry Dolan [Dolan, Harry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781838933739
Publisher: Head of Zeus
Published: 2020-02-04T00:00:00+00:00

Jennifer Linsey

Standing in the Taco Bell parking lot, Jennifer Linsey is reminded that her job is not as glamorous as she once hoped it would be. She’s a crime reporter for the Knoxville News Sentinel.

On the upside, if you want to look at it that way, Knoxville has a crime rate much higher than the national average and the average for Tennessee. But it’s still not a big city. With a population of less than two hundred thousand, it’s not Chicago or Baltimore or Detroit.

There are twenty murders in Knoxville every year, give or take, so most days Jennifer isn’t looking at dead bodies. Most days are like today: the police get called out to deal with some joker acting up at Taco Bell. There’s a real story here, because the joker in question is someone Jennifer has heard about before. He’s a kid who got diagnosed with schizophrenia at nineteen, who had to drop out of UT as a sophomore, who’s been in and out of psych wards for years, on and off his medication. He has tried going back to the university, but he can’t hold himself together for longer than a semester.

That’s a story Jennifer would like to write, but whether the paper would print it is another question entirely. So she does what she can. She tries to talk to the cops, but they’re not in the mood. All they want is to get the kid off the street. They give her nothing. She lingers afterward and interviews some members of the crowd. One of them knows the kid. She gets some quotes she might use someday. Not today. Today, on this, her editor won’t want more than a paragraph or two.

She’s ready to head back to her car when she sees something that alters the course of her afternoon.

It’s two people crossing the street. Normally she wouldn’t give them a second glance, but this time she does. She’s been following the Houston shooting story, and the man in the street looks like a scruffy version of Sean Tennant, the guy who shot Henry Alan Keen.

The woman with him looks like Tennant’s girlfriend, who went missing from the yoga retreat in Montana.

There’s no earthly reason for the two of them to be in Tennessee, but the closer they get, the more Jennifer is convinced: it’s them.

Jennifer has the presence of mind to raise her phone. Her camera app is already open. She starts shooting video.

“Sean!” she says. “Molly!”

They see her, and Sean puts out a hand to block her view, like a celebrity annoyed by the paparazzi. Molly gives a faint smile and shakes her head, as if Jennifer has made a mistake.

It’s no mistake. Jennifer is sure. The two of them get into a silver-gray Toyota Camry. The same color and model that Sean is said to own.

They back out of the space and roll toward the street. Jennifer runs along beside the car, still capturing video. “Wait!” she says. “What are you doing in Knoxville?”

Brilliant question, she thinks.

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