Desert Noir (9781615952236)
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As I looked down at the freshly dug grave of the blond-faced coyote shot on the way to her den by a gun-toting Scottsdale vigilante, I wept once more. The fool had shot the wrong coyote. That my coyote’s pups would stay at a wildlife rescue organization until they were old enough to return to the wild only slightly eased my sorrow. I remembered their mother’s wild smile as we faced each other across the Papago Buttes, the mark of the desert branded on her face.
She reminded me of me.
I bowed my head and wished her good hunting with Earth Doctor.
Then I turned around and went back to the truck where the man I no longer feared to love waited for me.
Epilogue
From the Scottsdale Journal:
SCOTTSDALE—Jay Kobe, widower of murdered socialite Clarice Kobe, was shot to death last night by his live-in girlfriend, Alison Garwood.
Neighbors reported hearing an altercation, then gunshots. They called 911.
When police arrived they found Garwood holding a gun and standing over Kobe’s body. She was bleeding from a beating that Capt. Edgar Kryzinski, head of the Violent Crimes Unit, described as “savage.”
“I loved him,” Garwood reportedly told police. “But I just couldn’t take it any more. Not after he killed our baby.”
According to hospital sources, Garwood was referring to a miscarriage she’d suffered earlier in the month, alleg-edly caused by another beating.
Garwood is being treated for her injuries at Scottsdale Memorial Hospital. It is not yet known if she will be charged in Kobe’s death.
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