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Nick wandered between the white tents. He was pretty sure if someone had murdered a girl a few miles away, they wouldn’t be shopping for fresh fruits and vegetables, but killing someone without care led people to do strange things. A few years before, the Santa Monica police were tracking someone with a mobile pet grooming business. The only way they caught the guy was that all the victims had pets with a recent haircut. It was strange where patterns emerged when you went looking for them.
Expecting Applebox to be browsing through the Red Delicious at this market was a long shot, but if he frequented the markets enough that Zeke called it out, someone else could give him the description that Zeke withheld.
“Strawberry?” a middle-aged Hispanic man asked. He held a plump, red heart in h
