John Katsaros walked home from Charlie’s, pacing slowly in the early afternoon sun. The sky was clear but it seemed to John that a pall had settled over the island like a blanket of cold fog. He shivered in spite of the heat. His friend Fred had met him as he left the coffee shop and asked, “Hey, Zorba, did you hear about that developer?”
“What about him?” John already knew about Hayden, and he was miserable. Rhys MacFarlane had phoned late Saturday afternoon to say Lexi had found Hayden’s body, and was shaken: would he and Stina find her and make her stay the night with them? John had gone to Lexi’s place and brought her home, knowing Andrea was away. Lexi had picked at her dinner, declined talking about her ordeal, and agreed meekly to spend the night. But at 6:30 Sunday morning, he and
