![]() ![]() It turns out the victim is a woman named Erma Singleton, a young mother who is presumed to have jumped onto the freeway from an overpass. Emerson’s first chapter is very descriptive of the process of Rita recording more than 1,000 shots of this inhuman disaster. The story starts as Rita, a forensic photographer for the Albuquerque Crime Lab, is recording via digital photography the remains of a hapless female victim whose parts are strewn all over highway I-40. Told in first person, Emerson takes readers back and forth in time as the mystery unfolds. Since she was a baby she could see lights and the spirits of dead people, otherwise known as ghosts. In the story, Rita Todacheene, a Navajo (Diné) from Tohatchi on the Navajo Nation (Naabeehó Diné Biyaad) is the main character. This group of mysteries can involve witches, angels, psychics, vampires, mediums and more. “Shutter,” a debut novel by Ramona Emerson, is a standout example of a mystery subset called paranormal mystery. ![]()
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