Night-World
“Karen could see the tiny droplets of perspiration forming at Sergeant Cole’s graying temples. She could see every wrinkle in the frowning face of the other officer, Lieutenant Barringer, who had joined them there.
Strange. It’s the suspect who’s supposed to squirm under questioning, but now she felt quite calm. And they were the ones who were sweating it out.
Not that she blamed them for it, under the circumstances. The nurse strangled at her desk, Griswold dead, and two more bodies found upstairs. She knew who they were, now—an orderly named Thomas and an elderly woman patient. The orderly had been stabbed to death, and the patient apparently died of a heart seizure, but of course they couldn’t be certain of that. All they knew was that four people had died; three staff members and one patient.
Five other rooms upstairs showed signs of occupancy, so there had been five other patients in the sanatorium. But they were missing.
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