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A voluptuous artists' model is murdered, her mutilated body dumped in the central plaza of a colonial Mexican town. Inspector Hector Diaz's murder investigation takes him deep into the town's gringo expat colony, a modern Mexico corrupted by greed and drugs and the byways and dead-ends of love and lust. Recalling Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union in its dark humor, moody atmosphere and sense of place, A Death in Mexico is a gritty and gripping quest for revenge and redemption. ""A Death in Mexico is a great and telling ride south of the border into madness and mayhem. I loved it."" -Michael Connelly ""Woods stands with Simenon and Derek Raymond as a master of the [police procedural] form."" -Scott Phillips ""[Woods is] the new bad boy of American noir."" -Ben Fountain ""Woods' twisted scenes had me laughing in wonderfully inappropriate ways."" -Joshua Mohr

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Jonathan Woods is the author of five pulp noir crime books. His story collection, Bad Juju & Other Tales of Madness and Mayhem (""Hallucinatory, hilarious, imaginative noir.""-New York Magazine) was a featured book at the 2010 Texas Book Festival in Austin and won a 2011 Spinetingler Award for Best Crime Short Story Collection. His other books are: - A Death in Mexico: ""Captures that same blend of bleakness and corruption that drives Orson Welles' film noir Touch of Evil.""-Booklist; - Phone Call from Hell and Other Tales of the Damned: ""Cleverly written and deeply, often hilariously, twisted.""-Booklist; - Kiss the Devil Good Night: ""A frenzied and sprawling masterpiece.""-Jon Bassoff; and - Hog Wild: ""Awild glorious ride and a fantastic feast of storytelling...Mixing the gothic with the surreal, the western with pulp.""-Ken Bruen. His stories have appeared in Dallas Noir, Murder in Key West #1 and #2 and other crime fiction anthologies and websites. A former Key West resident, he now divides his time between Dallas and Galveston, Texas.

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