Home Killings
“… Charles Dickens, or more recently, Joyce Carol Oates and Margaret Atwood, have used … the crime novel, to eloquently express themselves … Add to the chorus of writers the name of Los Angeles writer Marcos McPeek Villatoro, whose most recent novel, Home Killings, marks the debut of Romilia Chacón, a homicide detective of Salvadoran descent … Villatoro has immersed himself in the police procedural form and has delivered a story … that is enlivened by an enigmatic protagonist one hopes to see again as well as a richness of setting and characterizations that makes Home Killings one of the best novels—mystery or otherwise—you’ll read this summer.”
—Los Angeles Times Book Review
“A slick, elegantly crafted mystery from creative writing professor Marcos McPeek Villatoro (The Holy Spirit of My Uncle’s Cojones) mixes practical-minded Latina feminism and Latin American myth with the international drug trade.”
—Publishers Weekly
“An excellent written procedural, with attention to careful observation, character development, and cultural attitude. This is a winner from the author of The Holy Spirit of My Uncle’s Cojones.”
—Library Journal
“A good read, this does more than create a riveting murder mystery. It creates a realistic Latina viewpoint … the full discovery (of the killer), twisty and clever in the extreme, will surprise even the most experienced detective-story reader.”
—Hispanic Magazine