The former Argentine Montonero Ernesto Mallo ambushes the reader with cruel efficiency
Categories: Argentina, South America
Tag: Mystery
Crime pays for Padura
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A contemplative cop can give us clues about the career of one of Cuba’s most accomplished contemporary writers
Lunar psycho
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Costa Rica spatters back on to the literary scene with the groundbreaking true crime novel Cadence of the Moon
Categories: Central America, Costa Rica
The other Gómez
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El otro Gómez by Diego Paszkowski adopts a characteristically Argentine approach to the question of identity
Categories: Argentina, South America
Ouch! That stung…
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If you don’t want to get hurt, don’t read Edyr Augusto’s Hornets’ Nest. It’s small, but its deadly…
Categories: Brazil, South America
The existential cop
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December Heat by Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza follows a bookish policeman’s trip into the urban underbelly of Rio de Janeiro
Categories: Brazil, South America
Grabbed by the collar
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El hombre de Montserrat by Dante Liano is a stylish bludgeon that forces the reader through a Guatemala crisscrossed by death squads
Categories: Central America, Guatemala
Casa de caba
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Categories: Brazil, South America