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previously been married? Are there any disgruntled employees or clients, either in your current law practice or when you were with the firm in San Francisco who might want to retaliate against you? Is there anything you can think of at all? And like I always tell my clients - who has the most to gain from Laura's death?”
    Bob put his head in his hands. After several minutes, he looked up at Roger and said with a vacant look in his eyes, “I honestly can't think of anyone who would profit from Laura being dead or would want to see her dead.”
    “I don't know anything about Renee's past. How did you meet her? Was she involved with someone else. Has she previously been married? In other words, if someone wanted to get at Renee through Laura, who would it be?”
    “From the moment I found out that Laura had been murdered, I've been asking myself the same question, and I just can't come up with anyone."
    “Tell me more about Renee. I really like her, but I sure don't know much about her.”
     

CHAPTER 9
     
    In a hesitant and emotional tone of voice, Bob started to speak. “I met Renee at a Republican political event. As you know, when I left the firm where you and I worked together in San Francisco, I opened up a law office in Dillon, which is pretty much in the middle of the county. I’d thought for a long time that we need more Latinos in politics and had pretty much made a decision to get into county politics. I attended several county Republican political party meetings, and a man at one of the meetings befriended me. He urged me to become involved and told me he would introduce me to the movers and shakers in the county.
    “Renee comes from a wealthy family in the area. Her father and stepmother lived in Red Cedar, and he was once the mayor. He had a large ranch and sold it to a developer, then he made a ton of money playing the stock market. Even though Renee was originally from here, she moved to Dillon when the opportunity came to take over a retiring psychologist’s practice. We happened to see each other a number of times at various different Dillon events, and one night I was seated next to her at a political event. The rest is history. She’d been engaged for some time to a rancher, although they hadn't set a date. Renee broke her engagement to him, and from that moment on we were together.
    “Her father was very opposed to our relationship. He considered me to be nothing more than a wetback and unfortunately, because of me, he and Renee became estranged. He had been divorced from Renee’s mother, Camille, for a long time, and his new wife went along with him and terminated her relationship with Renee. Renee's mother accepted me with open arms, and we became very close.”
    “What about that rancher who was engaged to Renee? Where is he now? Did he find someone else? Would the fact that Renee broke off her relationship with him cause him to be a suspect? And what about her father? Although it’s hard for me to think of a father killing one daughter to get back at another."
    “Nor can I, plus there’s the fact that her father died several months ago. It was a very difficult time for Renee, because she and her father had never reconciled. As for the rancher, he's still around. I haven’t seen him in quite awhile, but immediately after Renee and I started going together, if we ran into one another, he always made a point of ignoring me. To my knowledge, he hasn't found anyone else, but I could be wrong. I just don't know much about him. Once Renee broke off the engagement, I didn't think there was any reason for me to have anything to do with him, and it was obvious he wanted nothing to do with me. Can’t say I blame him.”
    “What about Laura? Anything in her past that would indicate a problem? A problem important enough that someone would want to see her dead?”
    “My sister-in-law was one of the nicest people I've ever known. She was a nurse by profession and was a caregiver in every sense of