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The Darker Side

by Cody McFadyen

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After a prominent senator's daughter is found dead on a plane, FBI special agent Smoky Barrett and her team are called in to investigate. Soon, they discover this is the work of an overzealous vigilante serial killer who calls himself the Preacher—he collects confessions and then kills the confessors. He kills those he feels are not truly repentant or who have not fully confessed their sins. Smoky is a clever heroine, literally and figuratively scarred from a run-in with a killer from an earlier case.

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...subject. THE DARKER SIDE 27 "Yeah." Dr. Johnston, the ME, is in his mid-forties and he is huge. Not fat-- muscular. He's got biceps it would take both of my hands to fit around. His legs are so big he probably has to get his pants tailored. His hair is bleach blond and shaved close to his head. His face is square jawed and brutal looking, with a big nose that's bent from past breaks and a vein that throbs away in his forehead like a living metronome, mesmerizing. He could be a professional bodybuilder or a mob knee-breaker. He's all business with Lisa, putting those muscular arms to good use as he cuts through her rib cage. Even through the window, the sound is unsettling, like someone stepping on a series of Styrofoam cups. I can't hear what he's saying, but his lips are moving as he dic- tates his findings into the microphone that hangs above the table. "How did it go with Mrs. Reid?" AD Jones asks me. "Fine. Terrible." I...