Roberto González Rivera writes pulse-pounding tropical thrillers steeped in heat, danger, and sharp-edged dialogue—stories born of the Caribbean, where he grew up.
His historical fiction series, The Caribbean Chronicles and the Leonardo Bravo novels, bring to life forgotten heroes and the turbulent early twentieth century, when revolution, injustice, and ambition collided across the islands.
His contemporary Caribbean Cases thrillers plunge readers into modern-day mysteries driven by tension, momentum, and moral complexity.
At the heart of his stories are flawed, anti-heroic protagonists navigating a world of shifting loyalties, uneasy truths, and unforgettable characters.
He also writes short fiction that ventures beyond the thriller genre into the eerie and the paranormal. All of his work is available in both English and Spanish.
Some of his stories have appeared in The Acentos Review, Historical Fiction Reader, and Bangle Magazine. Follow him on Amazon, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube.
Outlaws
Roberto’s grandfather was a prison warden and his father played softball with the inmates when he was a teenager. Maybe that’s related to Roberto’s interest in delinquents, transgressors and rebels. Some of his childhood friends became leaders in their fields; others wound up in jail. At seventeen, he left his little hometown in Puerto Rico for New York City, where he earned a BS and an MA New York University.
Teaching
Roberto has taught at every level from Kindergarten to college in Venezuela, Puerto Rico, New York and Florida. The little ones are his favorites, because the education system has not yet smothered their creativity and optimism.
Art
He is also a fine artist, and his paintings are in the permanent collections of the Puerto Rican Institute of Culture, the Puerto Rico Tourism Corporation, the Arecibo Museum of Art & History, and other collections.
He has worked as a graphic artist, an art director for TV commercials, a bilingual copywriter, a creative director, a professor and more, always with stories knocking around in his head. At last, he decided to write the stories down.
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