Crime books set in Mexico (5)
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1.
Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor ES
Country: North America / 
Mexico
Mexico
Description:
The English-language debut of one of the most thrilling and accomplished young Mexican writers Longlisted for the National Book Award Shortlisted for the Booker Prize Winner of the Internationaler Literaturpreis New York Public Library Best Books of 2020 Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2020
2.
Fiesta en la madriguera by Juan Pablo Villalobos ES
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
A Tochtli le gustan los sombreros, los diccionarios, los samuráis, las guillotinas y los franceses. Pero Tochtli es un niño y ahora lo que quiere es un nuevo animal para su zoológico privado: un hipopótamo enano de Liberia. Su padre, Yolcaut, un narcotraficante en la cúspide del poder, está dispuesto a cumplir todos sus caprichos. No importa que se trate de un animal exótico en peligro de extinción. Porque Yolcaut siempre puede. Tochtli vive en un palacio. Una madriguera recubierta de oro en la que convive con trece o quizá catorce... continue
3.
A Silent Fury : The El Bordo Mine Fire by Yuri Herrera EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
Mine fire industrial disaster nonfiction: from the author of Signs Preceding The End of The World
4.
The Dead Girls by Jorge Ibarguengoitia EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
1960s Central Mexico, two sisters, Delfina and María de Jesús González, known as 'Las Poquianchis', run a small-town brothel. Kidnapped, drugged and beaten, their young workers are desperate for escape. The Dead Girls is the discovery of these young women, buried in the back yard. In the laconic tones of a police report, Jorge Ibargüengoitia investigates these horrific murders and their motives. A black comedy, both moving and cruelly funny, Ibargüengoitia's work is a potent and entertaining blend of sex and mayhem.
5.
Down the Rabbit Hole by Juan Pablo Villalobos EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
"Originally published in Spanish in 2010 as Fiesta en la madriguera by Anagrama, S.A., Barcelona, Spain; English translation originally published in 2011 by And Other Stories, Great Britain"--Title page verso.