Chapter 466: Two Bodies In Twenty-Four Hours

Was it just me, or did Jill's lack of surprise as I quietly filled her in on finding Geoffrey's body tied to a long-suffering soft sigh of acceptance and, dare I say, expectation? She didn't comment as much, but it wasn't hard to see that Sheriff Wagner's attitude toward my discovery had little to do with sympathy and much more with overwhelm.

Okay, fair enough. She now had two deaths to investigate, both of whom could very easily have been murdered. In fact, I wasn't about to think we'd be so lucky to discover they'd both died of natural causes. This was Reading, after all, and since when did my stumbling over dead people ever end well?