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Kieran stepped out of the Wilcoxes’ Land Rover — after killing the elderly couple, it had made sense to take their vehicle, so he could get to the centre of the village without having to trudge several miles through the storm — and glanced around, blinking rapidly to clear his eyes of the rain.
With the weather as bad as it was he didn’t expect to see anyone out and about, and he didn’t. The street was empty. He was glad about that since it meant there was no-one to see him, and his return to the village was a secret — he thought Julie had been about to make a call, rather than just finishing one, when he found her in the living room with her hand on the phone.
Grabbing Donald Wilcox’s shotgun and the knife from where they lay on the passenger seat, he slammed the driver’s door shut
