Chapter 10
‘They must have made a mistake. He can’t have been dead,’ I said.
‘I thought the paramedics screwed up too, but the coroner agrees with them, says the damage to his internal organs and the amount of decomposition all point to this guy being dead long before he turned up at the service station. Someone else must have taken his body and planted it there after killing the other two men. Even then, it doesn’t make sense. All the physical evidence points to the dead guy as the killer, but there’s no way he could have done it.’
Oh, God. He really had been a zombie, a monster. I wanted to bury my head in the sand, pretend that zombies and the like couldn’t exist. But… the Grim Reaper was real, very much so, so why not zombies.
I cast around for something sensible to say. Sam beat m
