Pool of Blood

The look of astonishment in his eyes, the blood pulsing like a fire hose from the veins in his neck, the feel of the blood hitting my face put huge grin across it. The eyes glazed over as life left the body. I dropped it into the wire basket and the water from the stream swept the now weakly pulsing blood into the pool thirty feet below. I jumped of the pinnacle boulder and sank to the bottom of the pool.

I was in a heaven. I swam in a pink pool of cool water under the full moon over Maui.

He was the first and many more would follow. I had found my calling. I knew that I was insane but now I was fulfilled.

The successful Slate case had a profound negative effect on the entire detective unit.  Alex, now recognized nationally for having closed Slate Organization down, and her entire team were getting counseling to deal with their PTSD like symptoms. The Chief had kept them all doing routine work and had encouraged them to take days off and think about taking special vacations with their families.

She goes on vacation with Matt, her soul mate, thinking she has escaped the curse of have the crime come to her. Together the relive her earlier memories of watching the sunrise from Mt Haleakalā, driving the road to Hana, Driving the road around West Maui Forest Reserve, snorkeling and going out on a whale watch.

Then as she walks the Io Valley, she cringes internally as a call from the Maui Detective Unit calls her. She cringes internally as she is asked for her help in solving a string of missing person cases that appears to be accelerating.

Alex realizes that vacation has taken a turn that she must follow. She calls on Johnnie to do his online sleuthing and asks him to work one of his miracles. Once again he provides the information that reveals who the perpetrator might be.

Alex and her two Maui detectives follow the trail and slowly make their way to the point of catching the killer before he kills his next victim.