Chapter 20
Jude rushed to where she stood. His eyes followed her gaze only to see someone had written the following words in red, as if with dripping blood, on one of the glass double doors that led into the building: “Dr. Brooks, you’re a slut. You will pay.” A crude painting of a skull with a broken X over it completed the picture. The other door had been shattered.
His blood froze. Jude was only too familiar with the image. It was one that had given him nightmares, a symbol that the cops had traced to his stalker, Marilyn Martin, who’d been an art teacher at a local private academy in San Francisco. The cops had done their best to track her down after she’d vandalized his property, but she’d disappeared into the wind.
So this was where she’d resurfaced. The woman was the main reason
