Death in Precinct Puerto Rico: Book Two: A Luis Gonzalo Novel

Steven Torres

St. Martin's Publishing Group, Apr 1, 2007 - Fiction - 256 pages

Angustias, Puerto Rico, 1990.
Even a tropical paradise can have its little murders.

Luis Gonzalo, sheriff of the small town of Angustias in Puerto Rico's central mountains, knows all there is to know about the people he has worked to protect for more than two decades. He knows that Elena Maldonado was beaten as a child. He knows that she was beaten as a wife. But when she winds up dead on the same day that she brings her newborn home from the hospital, he doesn't know who has killed her.

Elena's drunken husband seems like the obvious culprit, but after a grisly attack in front of the Angustias police station, potential suspects come out of the woodwork and multiply. The case is further complicated when someone breaks into the crime scene, but no one can figure out what, if anything, was taken.

Before the case is solved, Gonzalo and his deputies will be hard pressed to be certain that justice has been served, and the town of Angustias will be changed forever. A man will die in Gonzalo's arms, a trusted friend will be brutalized, and a fortune worth millions will change hands. Throughout all the turmoil, Gonzalo will keep two special people in mind: Elena Maldonado, the young woman whose life of constant abuse the sheriff had been unable to salvage, and her child, so soon left motherless.

Contents

• Chapter One: 1
• Chapter Two: 13
• Chapter Three: 27
• Chapter Four: 39
• Chapter Five: 51
• Chapter Six: 65
• Chapter Seven: 81
• Chapter Eight: 93
• Chapter Nine: 107
• Chapter Ten: 119
• Chapter Eleven: 131
• Chapter Twelve: 143
• Chapter Thirteen: 157
• Chapter Fourteen: 169
• Chapter Fifteen: 183
• Chapter Sixteen: 197
• Chapter Seventeen: 211
• Chapter Eighteen: 223
• Chapter Nineteen: 233
• Chapter Twenty: 247
• Chapter TwentyOne: 261
• Epilogue: 271

About the author

Steven Torres was born in the Bronx, New York, but lived part of his childhood in a small town in Puerto Rico. He is a graduate of the City University of New York Graduate Center. Steven teaches English at Utica College in Utica, New York, where he lives with his wife, Damaris, and their small, but courageous dog, Fluffy.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Death in Precinct Puerto Rico: Book Two: A Luis Gonzalo Novel; Volume 2 of Luis Gonzalo Novels
• Author: Steven Torres
• Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2007
• ISBN: 1429981873, 9781429981873
• Length: 256 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Hispanic & Latino; Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural