1 Zack Wild’s eyes followed the ambulance that held Kieran Wright until it disappeared from view. There was a patrol car with two uniformed officers escorting the ambulance, and a third officer in the ambulance with the handcuffed Kieran, yet Zack could not shake the feeling that the teen murderer, who had done so much damage to the village of Oakhurst, and whose arrest had been so costly, was not done causing trouble and hurting people. The situation was not really anything to do with him, a detective inspector once, he was now retired from the police force and made his living as a writer, but old habits died hard. He couldn’t forget either what he had seen, or what he knew had been done by one of the worst killers he had ever encountered. His sense of responsibility was not helped by

