MY BOOKS

It takes place in a fictional city called Hillsford. Hillsford is in San Diego County, CA. The protagonist is Homicide Detective Alma Rossi. She works for the Hillsford Police Department (HPD). She leans heavily on  Lieutenant Sofia Calderon and Retired Detective Marco Castillo. Alma works a 6:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. shift. She has a junior detective on that shift that she mentors, Detective Bill Cooke. The four murders happen in a ten-day period in the book's first quarter. There is an additional murder near the end of the book when HPD is finally close to catching the killer. I call it the Chameleon Killer because each murder is different. Most murderers follow a pattern. The only consistency in these is they are done in public places, and the murders are brutal. At the story's beginning, HPD thinks they are dealing with multiple murders because of the differences. Alma never waivers. She feels all along that she is dealing with one clever killer.