CHAPTER 31
The elephant had been a distraction, a commotion improvised by the killer to cover his crime. He was counting on the noise from the crowd, the panic caused by a raging elephant, to drown out Malcolm's screams of agony. He knew it wouldn't be a quiet death. First, he'd texted Malcolm to meet him by the trees, maybe by promising to pay him, and then he attacked Taj. After that, he waited at the designated place, his weapon fully charged. As soon as Malcolm walked through the trees, the killer had tasered him again and again, until his heart finally gave out. Like Jose Torres, Malcolm never had a chance.
But who was this killer? A man in a jester costume with pale hands, that was all I knew. I wished I could talk to Kip, but it seemed he wasn't available. That guy had some explai
