Excess Homicide The third Four Corners Mystery June, 2003

In the third Four Corners Mystery, Durango, Colorado police investigator Annette Trieri joins the Colorado Bureau of Investigation and is promptly faced with a multi-state serial killer. Someone, it seems, has been bumping off people around the Four Corners, bumping them off in apparently unrelated circumstances and leaving no clues.

A trust-funder in Santa Fe is shot in the throat with a cross-bow; a hunting rifle fells a National Parks employee at Natural Bridges in southeastern Utah with a shot to the head; east of Durango, a car explodes, interrupting forever a couple's vacation; a graduate student in Flagstaff is beheaded; up by Grand Junction a logger is run off the road. Then a lumber mill in Utah is torched, an obvious case of arson as indicated by a cryptic note that says "You've been SCREW’d." And to top it all off, someone tries to gun down the President.

As the mystery deepens, Annette’s favorite Dean, Hal Weathers, is pulled into the morass as people in his college emerge as suspects. Together, Annette and Hal concoct a plan to unveil the culprits and to bring about the downfall of a band of neo-Nazis who are trying to consolidate their “patriotism” movement.

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