How to get away with the perfect murder
How to get away with (the perfect) murder: You remember that hilltop shooting in France — the one that left an Iraqi engineer and most of his young family dead? It was never solved. QG investigated it and, if you like murder mysteries, you won’t want to miss this one. “The driver was a British engineer born in Iraq who worked on satellite systems in Surrey, and maybe that’s why he was dead and all the others were, too. He was shot four times, twice in the head. His wife … was dead in the backseat, also shot four times, also twice in the head. Her mother … was dead, too, shot three times, twice in the head. The cyclist was shot five times, including twice in the head. Zainab was still alive, though barely: She was shot once in the shoulder, then clubbed in the skull with the butt of the gun. The shooter had fired 21 times, mostly at a moving vehicle. … Eight of them were head shots. Apparently he was a professional. It all seemed so obvious three years ago, exactly what happened. Saad al-Hilli got whacked. He was stupid enough to have his family with him, so they got killed, too. … What other explanation could there be?” Read: “How to get away with (the perfect) murder.”