Ask a policeman / Rolando Hinojosa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hinojosa, Rolando.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican Americans--Mexican-American Border Region--Fiction.

Mexican Americans.

Police--Mexican-American Border Region--Fiction.

Police.

Genre:

Mystery fiction.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

196 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Houston, Tex. : Arte Público Press, 1998.

Summary:

The scene is the Texas-Mexico border, historically a site of conflict and violence, and today a dividing line over which is conducted the business of drug-smuggling and its attendant mayhem. Well-worn and wise in middle age, Rafe Buenrostro of the Belken County Homicide Squad is a master detective. When drug-related slayings begin occurring practically in his own back yard, Buenrostro leads a corps of bicultural sleuths in piercing the mystery of a crime family apparently at war with itself. As cadavers keep turning up on both sides of the Rio Grande, Buenrostro visits the small cantinas, houses of ill repute, and expansive ranches of druglords south of the river -- as well as some well-kept suburban homes on the northern side, seemingly immaculate but profiting equally from the illicit trade. It is in these suburbs that revelations of seamy sex and revenge unfold.

In a work that will delight readers of his mystery Partners in Crime as well as his other novels, Rolando Hinojosa reveals a rich cross-section of life among both the high and low inhabitants of the two nations sharing the Rio Grande Valley.

Notes:

"A Rafe Buenrostro mystery"--Cover.

ISBN:

1558852263

OCLC:

38438509