His books include Tortuga: A Novel; Anaya’s most well-know work, Bless Me, Ultima; and The Sonny Bacas Novels – Rio Grande Fall is the second book in the series. In it, P.I. Sonny Baca’s investigating an accident that he thinks is murder in parallel worlds. He also wrote many plays and children’s books, per NEH.
Did you know? An elementary school in Albuquerque, New Mexico, has been named after the author.
This book is the first of the five Pete Fernandez books.
Segura has also written comic books, including one on The Archies. And if you’re into podcasts, you might want to check out Lethal Lit, a crime and YA podcast that he works on.
There are seven books in the mystery series; Nava’s latest book (which is not a Henry Rios novel) is The City of Palaces.
But she’s a spy. What side will she pick? She will have to choose to stay loyal to the FBI, or the people she’s been spying on.
In addition to her prose novels, de Leon also writes poetry.
Now Chapa is on a dangerous quest, after the serial killer tells Alex that he’s still on the prowl. In fact, the child that helped to capture the serial killers years earlier is meant to be one of his future victims.
In fiction, Perez has also written Mourn the Living, among others.
Jimmy Vega is the main character, and a homicide detective. In this first book, he’s on the murder case of young Latina woman in New York; there’s also the mystery of what may have happened to a child whose identity isn’t known, but who seems to have some tie to the murdered woman.
Racism may have played a part in this crime, which is notable for Vega, since he’s a Latino. What will he uncover about his community and his surroundings?
Through the internet, he finds a captive audience for his terrible actions; as Nina Guerrera tries to bring him down, everyone is watching.
The Cipher is followed up by A Different Dawn.
