Rachel watched as the local coroner, accompanied by a few somber-faced deputies, gently moved Jackson's body onto a stretcher.

The air was thick with the scent of pine and tragedy as the coroner began his grim examination.

Abner, his face shadowed by the brim of his baseball cap, spoke up from the sidelines. "Check Phoebe too, will ya? Maybe there's

something fishy about her death as well."

Rachel shot him a glance, her green eyes sharp, but this tshe didn't object.

The results cback faster than anyone expected: both deaths were eerily similar, a fatal puncture to the brain with a sharp

needle.

Tobias, pale as the moon and only eleven years old, suddenly choked on his tears, his voice breaking the heavy silence. "It was

Queena. I saw her touch Phoebe's head, and then she just fell over. Queena's the killer."

His words were met with immediate disbelief. After all, Queena wasn't just anyone; she was the town's sole doctor, a woman of

education who had studied abroad.

Voices rose up in protest.

"Cut the kid sslack, he doesn't know what he's saying. Queena just treated his dad's injury last week!"

"Yeah, and why would she harm your dad, kiddo? They had no beef."

"Tobias, you're heartless! Has Queena ever been anything but kind to you?"

Tobias shrank back, suddenly unsure. It was true, Queena had always been good to him. But ever since Phoebe's incident, he'd

grown afraid of her.

Rachel, sensing the shift in the crowd, raised her hand for silence. Her gaze swept over the townsfolk. "Where's Queena?"

they realized Queena was nowhere to be found. Hadn't she

party quickly made their way to Queena's house, only to

stone-cold; a suspect on the run

rallying everyone to join the manhunt for

townspeople were uneasy with Queena missing. Could

the bus heading to the county, taking the unconscious lan with

was oblivious to the world around

was icy as she drove. She had seized the opportunity to

taking the keys.

belonged to her, and no one would take him

led to the discovery of the bus driver's body in a drainage ditch,

to pursue by car, Abner suggested, "Take the

just a moment before leading her team to

of cash amounting to ten

own crew.

off, chasing down Queena's

towards the county. But the county police

lan's mouth, pushing a pill

blood.

county's toll station, Queena's bus

close behind, and Rachel prepared to hand Queena over to

the bus.

intent on hiding. When he saw lan's face, he

the man who had disappeared from Cania be

still searching

Abner made the

"Abner?"

"We've found lan."

"Oh, what?"

bringing him back to Greenfield, but his condition doesn't look

confused, not even sure who Queena was. He was impatient to get the situation under

bring them back,

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