CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
By the time seven o' clock rolled around, Camille wasn't feeling bogged down by a lack of sleep any longer. Instead, she used the little surge of adrenaline from the scene of Gary Anderson's death to urge her on. Still, when she arrived at the coffee shop in Chalmette, she was a bit too eager to grab a cup of coffee. While waiting in line, a man came through the door and also stepped into line. It was the sort of awkward first-meeting moment that was broken by the social conventions of coffee lines and other patrons but when they came out of it, Camille found herself sitting at a table in the back of the coffee shop with the zoologist Officer Bradford had connected her with.
His name was Zack Hayes, a thirty-one-year-old that had lived his entire life in the greater New
