Hit list
Subtitle: the best of Latino mystery
By: edited by Sarah Cortez and Liz Martínez ; introduction by Sarah Cortez ; foreword by Ralph E. Rodriguez.
Contributors: Cortez, Sarah.; Martínez, Liz, 1963-
Publisher: Arte Público Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Houston, TX
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9781558855434
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories, American; American fiction -- Hispanic American authors; Hispanic Americans -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: In Lucha Corpi's story, ''Hollow Point at the Synapses,'' her unique narrator a bullet describes the instant before killing a young Peruvian woman: ''I feel the pull of the hammer. The pressure mounts. I am now in place. The moment is upon me. Swiftly and efficiently, I will do what I must, what I was created for. In an instant, I am off, traveling at a speed reserved only for death.'' This groundbreaking anthology of short fiction by Latino mystery writers, Hit List: The Best of Latino Mystery, features an intriguing and unpredictable cast of sleuths, murderers and crime victims. Reflecting the authors' and society's preoccupation with identity, self, and territory, the stories run the gamut of the mystery genre, from traditional to noir, from the private investigator to the police procedural, and even a ''chick lit'' mystery.