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Foley glanced across to Sam in the passenger seat. “You’re very quiet. What’s bothering you?”
“I can’t believe we let that dude go,” Sam answered angrily.
“We talked about this. He presented as the typical tourist. We had no good reason to pick the bloke up. Stop beating yourself up over this. What’s done is done. We can’t change that.”
“We should have looked closer,” Sam declared. “Now, two more have died. Lara McKenzie and this latest woman, Samantha Love. We should have looked closer.”
“In hindsight, maybe we should have. But we didn’t, and now there is nothing we can do about it. Now we focus on catching the guy.”
“I hope it’s us who finds him,” Sam said.
Foley took one hand off the steering wheel and indicated the countryside. “He’s out there somewhere.”
Sam looked at the h
