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Craig Nybo

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This case was of a different breed. The complexity didn’t come from clues, facts, and deduction. The complexity came from bystanders, with their superstitions and outlandish theories. It felt as if the people of DePalma Beach were all coiled up waiting for something to happen. No crime had been committed, yet the town seemed to be wrought with impossible notions—lunatic hysteria. Perhaps even after 50 years, the people of DePalma Beach still licked the wounds inflicted by Danny Slade. Perhaps they hadn’t forgotten. Just as a child learns not to put his hand on a burning stove a second time, perhaps the people of DePalma Beach were walking a little more carefully these days because, no matter how ridiculous the conjectures and the superstitious blather, the people of DePalma Beach felt that the stove was heating up again.

Kurt turned from the bumpy dirt road onto the highway and shot westward toward the police station.