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Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
Publisher: G a Thompson
Published: Nov 22 2025
Pages: 426
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.95 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
El Paso, 1954. The border city where truth and lies bleed together in the desert heat. Where being the wrong person-or knowing the wrong thing-can get you killed.
LucÃa Torres is a private investigator who specializes in cases the police won't touch. She's survived in a dangerous world by being smart, being careful, and never taking cases that might get her killed.
Until the day Lila Reyes walks into her office with a dead husband and a box of photographs.
THE CASE THAT CHANGES EVERYTHING
Rafael Reyes was a soldier at Fort Bliss who died in what the Army called a training accident. But the photographs he left behind tell a different story-one that involves Congressman William Walker, rising political star and decorated war hero, executing a Mexican man in cold blood.
It's evidence that could destroy Walker's career. Send him to prison for murder. End the reign of one of the most powerful and corrupt men in Texas.
It's also evidence that gets people killed.
CORRUPTION RUNS DEEP
Partnering with Captain Tomás RamÃrez-one of the few honest cops in El Paso's notoriously corrupt police department-LucÃa begins building an impossible case against a man who has the law, the money, and the guns on his side. But as they dig deeper into Walker's web of corruption, the body count starts rising.
Witnesses disappear. Evidence goes missing. Rafael's family is terrorized. And Walker's fixer, the cold and efficient Mitchell, begins systematically eliminating anyone who knows too much.
The message is clear: walk away or die.
LOVE IN THE SHADOWS
Amid the escalating danger, LucÃa finds unexpected sanctuary at El Lamento, a cantina where she meets Luz Morales-a singer whose voice can break hearts and whose presence offers the first real comfort LucÃa has felt in years.
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