Who Killed Sheila Tunne?

About the Book

A beautiful young woman is murdered in her bed with the most dreadful sadism. The murderer, after cutting her throat, passes the homicide weapon from the throat to the pelvis, opening a horrifying channel. The detective in charge of the case is harassed by the press because the days go by, and he does not find out how to arrive at the murderer of this monstrous crime. “OK, Jim, what happened to you?” I asked, trying to give my voice a trivial tone, although I don’t think I did it. Jim looked at me with wild eyes, and his glance showed terrible anxiety. “It’s . . . it’s horrible, Danny,” he shuttered. “They’re looking for me . . . for murder”. When I heard those words, I jumped out of my seat. I thought the mess Jim was involved in was big, but I never suspected that I would hear such a thing because my brother could be anything but a murderer. Yes, only a monster, a monstrous murderer could be the executor of that cowardly and abject crime. If I had believed in my brother’s innocence before, now, in contemplating the abominable murder committed, that belief became solid conviction; and I came to a conclusion: Jim had been chosen by the murderer to make him pay for his own crime.

About the Author

JULIO César REYES is a journalist and Uruguayan writer. He studied at the School of Journalism (Escuela Superior de Periodismo) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, at the Faculty of Humanities and Letters of the University of the Republic of Uruguay, and later graduated in News Editing at the University of Maryland, United States. He worked as Editor of Technical Reports in the Department of Regional Development of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Washington D.C. He has also written hundreds of articles and short stories that were published in newspapers and magazines of Montevideo, Uruguay.