I-SHIRLEY
Hed immersed himself in the tangle of facts, and though
he knew that epiphanous moments were the stuff of fiction,
had a powerful urge to drill down and discover something
that had been missed, the overlooked link that would tie to-
gether two murders, then a third, then another, until the case
was cracked.
The distraction of important work had been as soothing
as butter on a burn. He started by running hot, pounding the
hles, pushing Nancy, exhausting both of them in a marathon
of days bleeding into nights bleeding into days. For a while
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