BEFORE SHE DIES

Linda Real, Reporter for the Posadas Register, barely survives a night-time patrol with one of Undersheriff Bill Gastner’s deputies. The officer is killed by a blast from the same shotgun that ruined her face. Sheriff Gastner again teams up with Estelle Reyes-Guzman, with her usual sharp eye for physical evidence, to implicate Tammy Woodruff in the shooting. Tammy is a thrill seeking daughter of the local Republican County Chairman. Before Bill can interrogate her, she hightails it out of the County, only to be found crushed to death after her truck apparently went off the road. Her body was supposedly loaded with booze–in fact too much alcohol for anyone to have consumed….