All That Remains: A Novel #3 by Patricia Cornwell

Author:Patricia Cornwell
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Kay (Fictitious Character) - Fiction, Serial Murders - Fiction, Women Detectives, Detective and Mystery Stories, Serial Murders, Mystery & Detective, Richmond (Va.) - Fiction, Kay (Fictitious Character), Richmond (Va.), Serial Murders Virginia Fiction, Virginia, Fiction, Women Physicians, General, Medical Examiners (Law) - Fiction, Forensic Pathologists, Women Detectives Virginia Fiction, Medical Examiners (Law) Virginia Fiction, Medical Examiners (Law), Scarpetta, Women Sleuths
ISBN: 9781439149898
Publisher: Pocket Star
Published: 1992-07-14T05:00:00+00:00

All That Remains

Page: 100

"At the hearing?" she was asked. "Are you suggesting that the murder of Deborah and her boyfriend. . . "

"His name is Fred. " It was Bruce Cheney who had spoken, and suddenly his livid face filled the television screen.

The room went silent.

"Fred. His name is Frederick Wilson Cheney. "

The father's voice trembled with emotion. "He's not just Debbie's boyfriend He's dead, murdered, too. My son!"

Words caught in his throat, and he hung his head to hide his tears.

I turned off the television, upset and unable to sit still.

Rose had been standing in the doorway, watching. She looked at me and slowly shook her head.

Fielding got up, stretched, and tightened the drawstring of his surgical greens.

"She just screwed herself in front of the whole damn world, " he announced, walking out of the library.

I realized as I was pouring myself a cup of coffee what Pat Harvey had said. I began to really hear it as it replayed inside my head.

"Hunted down like animals and murdered . . . " Her words had the sound of something; scripted. They did not strike me as glib, off the cuff or a figure of speech.

A federal agency protecting its own? Hunt.

A jack of hearts like a knight of cups. Someone who is perceived or perceives himself as a competitor, a defender. One who does battle, Hilda Ozimek had said to me.

A knight. A soldier.

Hunt.

Their murders were meticulously calculated, methodically planned. Bruce Phillips and Judy Robe disappeared in June. Their bodies were found in mid August, when hunting season opened.

Jim Freeman and Bonnie Smyth disappeared in July their bodies found the opening day of quail and pheasant Ben Anderson and Carolyn Bennett disappeared March, their bodies found in November during deer season.

Susan Wilcox and Mark Martin disappeared in late February, their bodies discovered in mid-May, during spring gobbler season.

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