Home killings / Marcos McPeek Villatoro.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Villatoro, Marcos McPeek.

Series:

Latino literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drug traffic--Fiction.

Drug traffic.

Hispanic American women--Fiction.

Hispanic American women.

Police--Tennessee--Nashville--Fiction.

Police.

Policewomen--Fiction.

Policewomen.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 248 p. ; 22 cm.)

Place of Publication:

Houston, TX : Arte Público Press, 2001.

Summary:

The award-winning Home Killings , Marcos M. Villatoros first Romilia Chacón novel, won dazzling acclaim for its fusion of character, suspense, and a gripping police procedural swirling around a fiery Latina detective. Now, in a new novel filled with the same remarkable precision and power, Romilia Chacón turns back to the reason she became a cop in the first place: to hunt for the sadist who took her sisters life, and has kept on killing ever since. He is known as the Whisperer for the cryptic messages he leaves at his horrific crime scenes. But Detective Romilia Chacón can hear him loud and clear. Still haunted by the death of her beloved sister, Romilia begins to dig into the case on her own time and soon finds help she doesnt want. A seductive international drug lord is obsessed with her and seems to know more about the case than anyone inside law enforcement. But neither an outlaws unbridled power nor a cops persistence can untangle the web of illusion surrounding the man they seek. For this killer is living at the center of his own brilliant hell, and hes already decided who will join him next.

ISBN:

1-61192-462-6

1-61192-726-9

OCLC:

304159177