A new town built by yhe region´s most powerful man promises to be a model of order and progress, . But the community´s harmony is shattered when a series of deaths rocks it. The victims are five people with dark pasts.There are no clues. There are no culprits. Only a silent pattern seems to drag the wicked toward an inevitable faith.The chessboard of death is a suspenseful novel loaded with symbolism and moral tension where evil does not go unpunished, even if the manner of the punishment is unclear.