A shocking end is only the beginning. “Then the Lord replied: Write down the revelation and make it plain on tablets so that a herald may run with it. For the revelation awaits an appointed time; it speaks of the end and will not prove false.” (Habakkuk 2:2-3)
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Murder of an Uncommon Man
Chapter 4
Murder of an Uncommon Man
An unexpected call from my father's second wife forced me to confront his life and death. A farmer found him shot in a field with a shotgun and I needed to explain why. From my home in Vancouver, half a continent away, I sifted through musty boxes and my own memories to piece together what happened to him over his last twelve years of estrangement. Poring over scribbled notes and emails, police reports, and my father’s well-worn Bible, I uncovered a life that ended in one of two ways. As I put the last pieces of the puzzle into place, a call from another family confirmed my suspicions: the killer had taken her next victim and a second family was helpless to stop her.
My memoir, with the names and places changed, chronicles my father's life and death, from his youth in the 1950s to unravelling the mystery of his death over ten years.
An unexpected call from my father's second wife forced me to confront his life and death. A farmer found him shot in a field with a shotgun and I needed to explain why. From my home in Vancouver, half a continent away, I sifted through musty boxes and my own memories to piece together what happened to him over his last twelve years of estrangement. Poring over scribbled notes and emails, police reports, and my father’s well-worn Bible, I uncovered a life that ended in one of two ways. As I put the last pieces of the puzzle into place, a call from another family confirmed my suspicions: the killer had taken her next victim and a second family was helpless to stop her.
My memoir, with the names and places changed, chronicles my father's life and death, from his youth in the 1950s to unravelling the mystery of his death over ten years.
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A.M. Kirsch
