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Baldwin wished he could have mustered a bit more surprise when the dead man rose from the road in the sheriff's headlights. The sheriff shook his head in disgust, stood on the brakes. His bumper stopped a good quarter inch from Alexander Johnson III's kneecaps. The banker looked from the front of the cruiser to its windshield, his eyes flat. Somebody else must've been wearing his toe tag at the morgue. A tried-and-true scare, sure, musical corpses, but had Newby been in on it, or was he just in it the same way Baldwin was? A wrong-place, wrong-life kind of thing? Nothing new there.
The sheriff groaned, climbed out from the cruiser, slung the door shut behind him. Baldwin knew better, but he tried the door handles to either side of him all the same. If the sheriff would just step away, he could kick one of the plastic windows out. But they were both looking at him now. Studying him. Worse--liking what they saw.
When the dead man opened his mouth to say something, though, the sheriff hustled him out...
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