The award-winning Home Killings, Marcos M. Villatoro’s first Romilia Chacon novel, won dazzling acclaim for its fusion of character, suspense, and a gripping police procedural swirling around a fiery
The award-winning Home Killings, Marcos M. Villatoro’s first Romilia Chacon novel, won dazzling acclaim for its fusion of character, suspense, and a gripping police procedural swirling around a fiery
Latina detective Romilia Chacon is a marvelous heroine, one who clings to her heritage, her son, and a determination to do her new job in Los Angeles better than anyone else. She has to–because inside
It's the spring of 1978. John Travolta is riding high in Saturday Night Fever. Elvis has recently been laid to rest in Graceland. And in Knoxville, Tennessee, sixteen-year-old Antonio (Tony) McCaugh h
In the midst of death and destruction wreaked by an earthquake, the birth of Romilia is an omen of joy and prosperity for the settlers of El Comienzo. But powerful forces are at odds in this turbulent
Life has not handed anything to Romilia Chacon. A detective with the Nashville Homicide Unit and Salvadoran by blood, she's a bilingual cop who is a magnet for murder. It's in her family: her mother f
Detective Romilia Chacon is back again--and another serial killer is on her heels. She has gone from policewoman to FBI agent, but the move just might have put her into more danger.
Marcos McPeek Villatoro is not afraid to discuss mysteries, truths, or injustices. He has lived them. Poet and novelist, activist and radio personality, Villatoro writes poetry steeped in formalis
