Cactus blood
Subtitle: a mystery novel
By: Lucha Corpi.
Publisher: Arte Público Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Houston, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
Subjects: Women private investigators -- California -- Fiction; Mexican American women -- Fiction; California -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: She's back: Gloria Damasco, the Chicana detective tempered during the civil rights movement. And she's involved in solving another mystery complete with gruesome murders. Is it a serial killer that is leaving the corpses strewn with artifacts from Native American rituals? Does it have something to do with the farm workers' union which the victims had worked for in the seventies?

Gloria Damasco and Justin Escobar are the detectives who begin to look into the disappearance and death of the three former activists from the seventies. The trail the sleuths follow leads from the grape vineyards of Delano in 1973 to the old Native American ghost dancing site in the Valley of the Moon. The portentous landscape becomes a fitting site for the surprise denouement foreshadowed by Gloria's mysterious visions.