Happy Cinco de Mayo. Not a huge list of Cinco de Mayo mysteries, but there are a few. I've supplemented the list with Mexican mystery writers and books set in Mexico. Add to your reading pleasure today with a Chocolate Celebration. Check out my other Blog, Dying for Chocolate, for recipes and suggestions of great chocolate for Cinco de Mayo. Two days of blogging about entrees, drinks and desserts.
The Cinco de Mayo Murder by Lee Harris
The Bane of Cinco de Mayo by Nathan S. Mitchell
The Cinco de Mayo Reckoning by Terry Money
Not meaning to be complete in any way, I put together a few titles by Mexican authors or set in Mexico or related to the Mexican experience in some way (but not to Cinco de Mayo).
Mexican Crime Writers:
Paco Ignacio Taibo II The Uncomfortable Dead (and numerous other novels) Read an interview with Paco.
Eduardo Monteverde
Juan Hernandez Luna
Hardboiled fiction on the Mexican-American frontier:
Gabriel Trujillo Munoz-known for his science fiction and literary criticism, also writes detective fiction.
Mesquite Road
Tijuana City Blues
Carlos Fuentes: Cabeza de la Hidra (The Hydra Head)
Joaquin Guerrero-Casaola, The Law of the Garrotte
Want to find out more about Mysteries in Mexico. Read G.J. Demko's Landscapes of Crime.
Lucha Corpi is a Chicana mystery writer. She was a Guest on La Bloga on Chicana Crime Fiction: Where to?
Mignon G. Eberhart. Wings of Fear takes place in Mexico City.
Read an essay by Jennifer Insley "Border criminals, border crime: hard-boiled fiction on the American Frontier in Confluencia: Revista Hispanica de Cultura y Literatura
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