Chapter 26
Saturday 31 January 2032
Since deciding not to dump Maise’s body in a different location, and leaving it to be found by the police in situ at the pumping station, John Henry had moved his t*****e chamber to a different site. In an abandoned factory twenty-five miles beyond the pumping station, Rhianna Webster hung suspended by the wrists from the prong of a rusty forklift truck. She had lacerations on her body in the same places as John Henry’s other victims. He’d gone home now and all she could do was to wait until the next day when she would no doubt suffer further t*****e and, ultimately, death.
A schoolteacher, she’d grown up under difficult conditions and her upbringing had toughened her up. She knew that somebody called the Box-Cutter was killing women – the local mains
