The Fourth Time is Murder

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Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman regarded the lengthy e-mail message, again finding herself intrigued. At the same time she wondered why, three weeks before when the message had first arrived from A Woman’s World magazine, she hadn’t just tapped the delete key. Since the day the e-mail had arrived, she had read the full text a dozen times, and repeatedly opened the four attachments that had arrived with it.

The first was a photograph of herself, taken three years before by Posadas Register publisher Frank Dayan. In that photo, Estelle was a bloody mess, standing with several other officers at the edge of the county’s landfill pit. She held a blood-soaked handkerchief to her upper lip. The photo of that night’s crime scene was dramatic and harsh, and Estelle had cringed when it appeared on the front page of the Register…and again when the image had blossomed on her computer screen as an e-mail attachment.

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