CHAPTER TWENTY SIX
Avery tried to keep her excitement in check as she left the bookstore. She had just made a startling connection between the killer and his first victim: Henrietta Venemeer was a Gemini, and she’d been left to look like the sign of Gemini on a boat. But that was all Avery had. As gratifying as it was to know, she had no idea why.
Is he killing women for their astrological signs? she wondered. What if he doesn’t know them at all? What if it’s just about their signs? No, she thought. That’s not possible. He must be familiar with them somehow.
Puzzle pieces with no form made her agitated and eager to act.
The Eye of Horus Bookstore was nearly impossible to find, a dark hole-in-the wall shop down a flight of stairs, stuffed between two large corporate buildings. On the wa
