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?"

only then that they realized Queena was nowhere to be found. Hadn't she just been there

made their way to Queena's house, only to find it empty, the doctor gone without a

suspect on the

county police, rallying everyone to join the

townspeople were uneasy with Queena missing. Could

had already boarded the bus heading to the county, taking the unconscious

and was oblivious to the

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

taking the keys.

singular: lan belonged to her,

the bus driver's body in

she was about to pursue by car, Abner suggested, "Take the

hesitated for just a moment before leading her team

meanwhile, left Tobias with a stack of cash amounting to ten thousand

own crew.

helicopters took off,

towards the county. But the county police had

a pill down his throat, then slit her palm

blood.

the county's toll

hand Queena over to the county

the bus.

to see the person Queena was so intent on hiding. When he saw lan's face, he couldn't believe his

had disappeared

still searching for

Abner made

"Abner?"

"We've found lan."

"Oh, what?"

bringing him back to Greenfield, but his condition doesn't look good. I've got Queena too; her story

confused, not even sure who Queena was.

them

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