A Deadly Influence (Abby Mullen Thrillers, #1)

by Mike Omer

Abby took out another picture and showed it to them. “This is a picture of David Huff, Eden’s ex-husband, alongside Otis Tillman. That’s Gabrielle Fletcher as a child with them. David was the one who recruited Eden to Tillman’s cult. She lived there for over thirteen years.” Carver and Griffin gaped at her. Then Carver taped the picture of Tillman to the board. “So Eden Fletcher was part of a cult?” Griffin said. “That might change our approach to the entire case.” “She’d been in a destructive religious cult as a child,” Abby said. “It made it easier to recruit her.” “How could it make it easier?” Carver asked. “I’d have thought that if a person had been in a cult once, they’d want to stay as far away as possible.” Abby shook her head. “It’s complex. When people are in a cult, they have a tight community. And you have a purpose. When they leave, all that is gone, and that feeling is hard to replace.”