I Hunt Killers

From the hospital, G. William drives Jazz back to Ginny’s building, where his Jeep is still parked. Police are now stationed in the building, looking for clues, but Jazz no longer feels compelled to join them: “A part of Jazz yearned to join them, but he had told Howie he was done. And he meant it. He was out of the profiling business” (227). Jazz enters his Jeep and drives to Gramma Dent’s house.

When he enters the house around 4 a.m., a strange sensation washes over him: “He had the feeling he was being watched. That someone was in the house” (229). He shakes off his fear and finds Gramma Dent asleep on the sofa with a blanket covering her. To calm himself, Jazz does a quick check of the house, looking in every room of the house to make sure that it is clear. When he finds nothing, he heads to his bedroom to get ready for bed. Just as he gets into bed, he glances over at the wall of his bedroom that shows a picture of each of Billy’s victims. With rising terror, Jazz notices that the pictures have been tampered with: “Someone had inscribed the first four pictures with a red marker, writing, ‘1,2,3,4’ on them and then coloring the eyes into demonic glares.