The Clockwork Killer by Justina Luther

Author:Justina Luther
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: suspense, mystery, detective, woman sleuth, crime, thriller
Publisher: Crazy Ink
Published: 2022-09-12T00:00:00+00:00

5:45 p.m. July 10, Fish Horn, Arkansas

BRENNA RUBS HER FOREHEAD while her temples throb. Crime scene photos swim before her eyes. A car accident mingled with a suicide, a hiking accident, electric shock, and a deer attack. Where is the thread? What is it that he’s seeing that I don’t? Every single one of these can be explained away. She takes in the photo of Floyd Barrister in his shorts and hiking boots, the man’s head bashed in. She winces. He fell from a great height. It doesn’t say murder. That says climbing a tree and fell. She rubs her forehead and purses her lips. I need to understand what he was thinking.

Getting to her feet she makes her way around the partition, tucking her hands into her pockets, she makes her way to the chief’s office.

“What are you doing?” Officer Winslow says.

“I was going to talk to the chief, you have a problem with that?”

He rolls his eyes. “I saw you with all those files. What do you think you’re doing?”

“What I’m doing is none of your business. Now, why don’t you go back to doing your job.” She offers him a sweet smile before shifting her attention back to the chief’s office and striding toward it. Knocking twice, she pauses.

“Enter.”

She slips inside the cramped, pale walled room.

Resting his elbows on his metal desk he steeples his fingers. “Thoughts already?”

She wags her head and drops into the seat across from him. “Sir, I’m not seeing the connections. Everything looks like an open and shut case to me. What is it that you see, that makes you feel like these things don’t add up?”

He takes a slow, deep breath and leans back in his chair. “It’s the fact that these are the outliers, the oddballs. I mentioned each of these cases were people who don’t belong to the town.”

“So? Do you think only locals are allowed to die in Fish Horn? I don’t mean to be insubordinate, however, this doesn’t add up. I’ve been staring at those files for hours, and there’s not a single thread that ties them together unless it’s that they’re all completely random.”

A smile curls the corner of his mouth. “And therein lies their connection.”

You have got to be kidding me. She touches her lips. “Sir,” she chooses her words carefully, “you can’t build a case on lack of connection.”

“Oh, but I can. Though, I would like to ask you a question.”

She leans back in her seat. “Go for it.”

“Why did you pull those two open cold cases?”

She lifts a shoulder. “I was trying to grab for anything that might connect. If these cases are truly unsolved, then to my mind it was logical they would connect to possibly something else in the town that’s unsolved, those were the only two I could find.”

He puffs out his cheeks and gives a slow wag of his head. “Those cases are solved even if they say they’re not.”

She tilts her head. “What do you mean?”

He rolls his eyes and leans forward.

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