They Say a Girl Died Here

It’s that time, after all.” “Michael Cairns was shot barely twenty miles from here five days after Bonnie’s murder. There wasn’t much evidence of grain growing in this small town. Maybe it was Anna’s imagination, but she would have bet the rest of her savings that she wasn’t the only one in town who thought there might still be a killer among them. Roz finally pushed her chair back and hurried to the restrooms, in the other direction from the offices, and Anna rushed up the steps, quietly opened the door, and jogged down toward the sheriff’s office.