Dusk was settling over the island as Rhys MacFarlane began what would be a long night. After talking on his phone with the watch commander, who had just got off the afternoon boat in Long Beach, the young detective had his marching orders. He’d phoned the sheriff’s station and asked that his fellow detective, Ted Price, be dispatched to the scene. He’d found it simple to confirm, if unofficially, the identity of the dead man. The contents of a slim wallet and a silver card case in the inside pockets of his suit both indicated that the deceased was Warner Kendall Hayden, 55, of Denver, Colorado. Once he had some assistance, he could set about securing the area. Not long after Lexi and Robert Pyle left, Rhys was relieved to see one of the island paramedics, Seth Forman, come jogging along th
