CHAPTER FIVE
When they arrived at the coroner’s office, Camille couldn’t help but feel as if the timing of it all might be some sort of good omen. As soon as they were led back to the room where Brittany Gable’s body was being stored, the coroner had been called to the back of the building to receive another body. This turned out to be the body of the first victim, the as-of-now nameless male that had been shipped to the bureau’s coroner of choice.
Once the paperwork was filled out and proper guidelines were adhered to, Camille and Palmer found themselves standing in a large examination room with both victims and the coroner. The coroner, a middle-aged man with graying hair and intense, staring eyes, looked to the newly arrived corpse with both irritation and disgust. While he observed t
