Publisher's Synopsis
He was a "big city detective" who moved to a small town, where murder found him. On his first day of work, murder comes to Loma Parda, NM. Pietro Diego Luchini is the newly hired Doña Ana County detective, a stranger, an outsider from the city in a country town. It was before sunrise, the flashes and strobe of the lights from police units caused an eerie effect on the grotesque scene. The strobe of the flashes induced a catatonic stare upon the curious spectators at this horrible sight. It was as if the people could not look away and then the detective ordered the lights to be shut off and politely asked them to leave. They looked at him suspiciously then he heard murmurs, whispers and grumbles from the spectators who rubbernecked over their shoulders as they walked away. The first ray of sunlight before dawn silhouetted the view as if a black veil shrouded the man roped to a hangman's post.
