Toys in the Attic (Cafferty & Quinn) by Heather Graham

Author:Heather Graham [Graham, Heather]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-09-04T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 4

There was a building coming up on Quinn’s left. He headed toward it—and slipped into the little enclave before the entry.

He waited, wondering if a zombie-nun would walk by him. And wondering, too, if he could put it down with the Smith and Wesson he was carrying.

For a moment, all he heard was the beating of his heart. Then the footsteps came again. Cautiously. At last, he knew, the stalker was almost upon him. He drew his gun and stepped out—ready to shoot.

“Oh! Oh, my God!”

He quickly lowered his weapon. It was Officer Sandy Burnett.

“What the hell are you doing?” he demanded.

“Following you!” she told him.

“Why?” he asked.

“Oh, I don’t think that Detective Mason trusts you. Or, perhaps, he doesn’t trust you not to spill information or get the city in an uproar. I don’t know. He just told me to keep an eye on you.”

Quinn returned his gun to the holster at the base of his spine, beneath his jacket. “I thought you were a lead on the case, too?”

“No, Mason is the lead—I’m on it because of Kathy Kennedy and the zombie-nun rumors,” she said. “We hadn’t paid any attention to her—I mean, you know, the Kennedy kids grew up here and they’re well known and everyone knows there’s creepy stuff all over that house…no one thought that Kathy was really attacked by a zombie nun!”

“But now, Davy has been saying the same thing. So, what does Detective Mason think about that?”

“That Davy is an impressionable drunk and heard about Kathy somehow. I mean, easy enough. This is really kind of an insular small town.”

“There’s something up with zombie nuns,” Quinn said.

“I believe you—and even drunk Davy,” Sandy said. She sighed softly. “I’m sorry—Mason is a good detective. He has no imagination—which you think he would have acquired down here. Davy said that the zombie nun was walking alone. Mason just isn’t going to go for that. If he left room for a person behind the nun, pushing it around…I don’t know. I mean, you can’t really believe that a zombie nun mannequin is doing all this?”

“I think that a mannequin is being used, yes.”

“Well,” Sandy said. “I guess—I guess we’ll have to keep investigating. What do you suggest?”

“We need to find out where the zombie nuns are.”

“What? What zombie nuns?” Sandy asked him.

“There were five in all,” Quinn said. “They were used in a movie—Zombie Nuns of the Apocalypse. They went up for sale. Colby Kennedy bought one.”

“Oh, right, yes! That’s the one that chased Kathy into the road—according to Kathy,” Sandy said. “I thought she was—just crazy rambling. And I didn’t see any zombie nun when I locked the house up.”

“You were the one who saw that the house was locked?”

“Yes, I was there when the ambulance came; I sat with Kathy. Then, when the ambulance was gone with her and I’d called Colby, I locked up the house.”

“And you didn’t see the zombie nun?”

“Well, I didn’t go prying into the whole house! I looked

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