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Chapters (49)
  1. TITLE PAGE
  2. COPYRIGHT PAGE
  3. DEDICATION
  4. Contents
  5. CHAPTER ONE
  6. CHAPTER TWO
  7. CHAPTER THREE
  8. CHAPTER FOUR
  9. CHAPTER FIVE
  10. CHAPTER SIX
  11. CHAPTER SEVEN
  12. CHAPTER EIGHT
  13. CHAPTER NINE
  14. CHAPTER TEN
  15. CHAPTER ELEVEN
  16. CHAPTER TWELVE
  17. CHAPTER THIRTEEN
  18. CHAPTER FOURTEEN
  19. CHAPTER FIFTEEN
  20. CHAPTER SIXTEEN
  21. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
  22. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
  23. CHAPTER NINETEEN
  24. CHAPTER TWENTY
  25. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
  26. CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
  27. CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
  28. CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
  29. CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
  30. CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
  31. CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
  32. CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
  33. CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
  34. CHAPTER THIRTY
  35. CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
  36. CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
  37. CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
  38. CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
  39. CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
  40. CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
  41. CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
  42. CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
  43. CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
  44. CHAPTER FORTY
  45. CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
  46. CHAPTER FORTY-TWO
  47. CHAPTER FORTY-THREE
  48. Author’s Note and Acknowledgments
  49. About the Author

“The dream catcher,” Nan said. “It’s part of a set. There was one just like it in Tanya’s bedroom.”

“He kept it as a souvenir?”

“It’s possible. If it’s hers, we might be able to get her DNA from it.”

Eve felt a flutter of excitement in her chest, not only because this could tie Coyle to the house, but it also cast everything in the drawer in a new light. Now she wondered where everything else in the drawer came from.

Nan read the expression on her face. “We’ll take pictures of every item in the drawer and log it all.”

“Thanks,” Eve said.

“It’s what we do,” Nan said.

A thought occurred to Eve. She left the room, squeezed past another CSU tech in the hall, and went into the kitchen, where she started opening the cupboards and drawers. The pantry was full of canned foods, like chili and SpaghettiOs, boxes of sugary breakfast cereal, a canister of Pringles, a box of Ritz crackers, and an opened box of Oreo cookies.

She opened the doors under the sink, took out the garbage can, and began carefully sorting through it. There were empty soft drink and beer cans, fast-food wrappers from Taco Bell, some fried chicken bones, and a greasy, torn box from KFC.

Duncan came up behind her. “Found anything?”

She put the garbage can back under the sink and stood up. “You need to go see Coyle’s bedroom closet.”

“What for?”

“I don’t want to ruin the surprise.”

He headed down the hall and she went into the living room, squatted down in front of the TV, and began examining his stacks of DVDs. His collection included a lot of porn, a lot of action movies, and every Planet of the Apes film, the Planet of the Apes TV series box set, and all the episodes of the Return to the Planet of the Apes Saturday morning cartoon.

She picked up his DVD of the first Planet of the Apes movie, the one starring Charlton Heston and Roddy McDowall. The box was worn and scratched. When she opened it up, the disc fell out, the clips that held it in place broken off long ago.

“Wow, an ape suit, that’s a first,” Duncan said, coming up beside her. “But being an ape freak isn’t a crime. We need something that links him to the murders.”

“The treads of his hiking boots match the prints CSU lifted from the scene and he has an earring that could be half of a matched set that belonged to Tanya.”

“I was hoping for something more definitive like the knife, some bloody clothes, or a Hefty trash bag full of body parts.” Duncan squatted beside her and picked up one of the DVDs off the floor. “I don’t think Gangbang on the Planet of the Apes is part of the official canon, in case you were wondering.”