The Missing Money

By James Shannon

Police detective Gilbert Souza is caught between the rock of his Portuguese grandmother, whom he’s loved all his life, and the hard place of Tiago D. Costa, the criminal boss who has intimidated him since seventh grade. Now, out of his jurisdiction and clearly out of his comfort zone, Gilbert needs to address the problem of some missing money.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wildside Press
• Release date: Jun 7, 2021
• ISBN: 9781479465033

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THE MISSING MONEY

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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Copyright © 2014 by James Shannon.

Originally published in Rogue Wave: Best New England Crime Stories.

Published by Wildside Press, LLC.

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THE MISSING MONEY

JAMES SHANNON

I sat at my grandmother’s kitchen table, in my usual seat, the same one I’ve been sitting in since I was big enough to choose for myself. Near the fridge and against the wall. Even as a kid I must have sensed I’d need to have my back to the wall when dealing with my grandmother, the tiny woman her fifteen grandkids all still call Vó. Though the word is the Portuguese diminutive of grandmother, the only thing small about her is her size.

She had invited me down to Fall River for lunch. I came partly because she had promised me cacoila, a spicy beef stew. But mostly I was here because she was my vó and if she called, I came. Still, I knew I wasn’t here just for lunch. And I knew she wouldn’t tell me the real reason for the invite until she felt like it—and maybe not even then. My job as a police detective in Putnam, a town near Boston, was