A continuation of the interview with Sheriff Will Diaz. Will Diaz is the central character in the four novels that make up The Lawman Series. The fifth book is expected out about Christmas of 2025.

Rich Muniz – Sheriff, you’re getting a little boring here. I want to ask you about one of the things you don’t like talking about.

Sheriff Will Diaz – Oh, Please. Not Adams Mystery Playhouse!

Muniz – Yep. Adams Mystery Playhouse. You never mentioned it in any of your books except to say you, Jewell, RJ, and Pam attended. But you didn’t say anything about what happened except to say the food was good.

Sheriff Diaz – It’s a little embarrassing.

Muniz – Spill it.

Sheriff Diaz – It was about three months before I left Law Enforcement forever. RJ and Pam were both leaving for a job with the Secret Service. I was elected for the senate and we were kind of having one of those last blow out get together.

Muniz – That timing sounds about right. What happened?

Sheriff Diaz – It’s . . . Oh, hell! At least it’s a good story.

Muniz – Go on.

Sheriff Diaz – A few months before, myself, RJ, and Pam had been anointed as “America’s Greatest Living Detectives!”

Muniz – Yes, Samantha Gallegos wrote that article in the Post.

Sheriff Diaz – I love Sam like a sister. But every time she writes something about me, I wonder how much trouble it’s going to cause me.

Muniz – And this caused you trouble?

Sheriff Diaz – More embarrassment for the three of us.

Muniz – Come on.

Sheriff Diaz – Some friends purchased us tickets to attend. We were in Denver for a political thing, so it was easy to attend. The way these things work, is you get a great meal, then an enactment of a murder. Witnesses are interviewed, clues given.

Muniz – And?

Sheriff Diaz – The three of us couldn’t solve it!

Muniz – What?

Sheriff Diaz – A made up mystery and we had no idea who did what.

Muniz – We’re you guys singled out to solve it?

Sheriff Diaz – When you receive a standing ovation upon entering a room, everyone knows who and what you are. We couldn’t make sense of this thing. Oddly, if I’d read a little of Agatha Christie on the side, I might have gotten it.

Case was simple. Old goat who’s one day younger than God married a 21 one year-old card-carrying fox. They’re celebrating his birthday along with his son and daughter. As the cake come out, the lights go out. There’s a gun shot. When the light come back on, he’s been shot, and her throat has been slashed.

And we couldn’t figure it out.

Muniz – How come you guys had trouble figuring it out.

Sheriff Diaz – We didn’t step into the fantasy. We wanted to search the daughter’s purse but needed to get a warrant to do so. That’s what sunk us. We tried to bring the real world into a fantasy scenario and it’s didn’t work.

Muniz – The greatest detectives in America stumped by a made up murder.

Sheriff Diaz – Now, that’s funny!

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