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?"

to be found.

search party quickly made their way to Queena's house, only to find it empty, the doctor

stone-cold; a suspect

tcontacting the county police, rallying everyone

with Queena missing. Could

the county,

injections and was oblivious to the world

seized the opportunity to escape with the town's

taking the keys.

lan belonged to her, and no

to the discovery of the bus driver's body in a drainage ditch, further confirming Queena's

pursue by car, Abner suggested,

moment before leading her team to

to ten thousand dollars and a

own crew.

off, chasing

lan, drove aimlessly towards

open lan's mouth, pushing a pill

blood.

toll station, Queena's bus was

prepared to hand Queena over

the bus.

to see the person Queena was so intent on hiding. When he saw lan's

had disappeared from

searching

made the

"Abner?"

"We've found lan."

"Oh, what?"

him back to Greenfield, but his condition doesn't look good. I've

even sure who Queena was. He was

bring them back,

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