Murder 1 – Hello
Don’t worry, I won’t be dead at the end of this story.
I mean, I can’t technically guarantee it, but I’m 99.9% sure I’ll be okay. But if you log on one day and this blog is gone…well, then, you’ll know I didn’t make it.
You see, there’s a killer on the loose. And every day, when I open my front door to greet the world for a new adventure, there might be a knife waiting to say hello to my heart. Or my throat. Or both.
Not exactly a good reason to get up in the morning.
My name is Paige O’Sullivan. And I don’t live in total fear, but it doesn’t take Clarice Starling to feel the murder madness at a boil. I heard about the second murder while wrestling with my beauty this morning…10 crappy minutes trying to push a 5-inch wad of my unruly hair into a rubber band that I took off a bunch of celery in the fridge.
The news blaring from my TV seemed especially loud at 7 am…A body has been discovered near the front entrance of Dunkin’ Donuts on Main Street in “historic” downtown Baskin, New Hampshire…
Creepy. And not just because they referred to our dilapidated downtown as “historic,” but because I think I heard the sirens in the middle of the night. But the actual Time of Death hasn’t been confirmed…KR-TV’s “News Reporter Extraordinaire” (gag), Kasey Blondeau, refused to divulge the details. Keeping quiet probably has less to do with mandates from the police and more to do with his lack of useful knowledge about anything other than his hair gel.
I’m not sure if the FBI has officially declared this a serial killing, but I did a quick search on Wikipedia and found this:
“A serial killer is typically defined as an individual who has murdered two or more people over a period of more than a month with down time (a “cooling off period”, which may last for days, weeks, months and even years) between the murders, and whose motivation for killing is largely based on psychological gratification…”
Considering that two months ago the body of Angela Price was found slashed in a bloody heap near her front door, I find it reasonable to think that police just might consider a possible connection to the latest body – I know I will.
And so right now I’ve got three things on my mind…
1.) Feeding Flint and Stubby before they land the starring roles in one of those “10 cents a day can save the world’s malnourished animals” commercials.
2.) Getting to work so I can prep the pub for tonight’s TGIW (Thank God It’s Wednesday) event: $2 drafts.
3.) Solving a murder.
Or two.
I’m not looking forward to the silent stares I will pretend not to notice from the pub patrons. Or the memories screaming for my attention. Because Baskin knows that a murder can’t introduce itself to this town without greeting me with a vicious bone-chilling hug…
But first things first.
There’s someone at my front door.
