Bøger af Rick Skwiot

Finalist for the Willa Cather Fiction Prize. A funny and moving portrait of a Mexican town plagued by expatriate gringos, licentious locals, and corrupt officials. Their seeming disparate lives weave a vibrant, exotic and sexy tapestry of life and death, longing and love, faithlessness and truth set against a backdrop of an indifferently received murder of a young artist.

Hemingway First Novel Award winner. The sensual mystery of a son's compulsive search for his father's bones-a quest that draws him into an exotic Mexican underworld of sex, mysticism, drugs and sudden violence. Vibrant yet darkly poignant, this gritty tale exposes the simmering passions-fired by jealousy, vengeance, lust and greed-when Anglo and Hispanic cultures clash.

Exiled to the city's tough North Side, disgraced St. Louis Police Lieutenant Carlo Gabriel wants nothing more than to return to the headquarters hierarchy. To get his wish all he needs do is track down the missing husband of the mayor's vivacious press secretary. Instead he unearths a morass of corruption, educational malpractice, and greed that threatens to consign thousands of at-risk youths to the mean streets of America's murder capital. Worse, it's the kind of information that could get a cop killed. Fighting for his life and his honor, Gabriel must make a choice that could shake not only his own future but also that of the city and its top leaders.