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Synopsis
When Gloria Damasco decided to take part in San Francisco's traditional "Day of the Dead" procession, she didn't realize that she'd soon be encountering both a convicted killer - the notorious "Black Widow" - and a bizarre abduction staged by two costumed riders on horseback.
As Gloria attempts afterwards to solve the puzzle of Licia Lecuona's murder of her husband Peter, the trail leads her from the fog-shrouded but familiar Bay Area south to the remote, sunlit peaks of the Sierra de Tepoztlan . . . and perhaps, she fears, back in time to a mysterious and violent encounter as ancient as Mexico itself.
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About the Author
Lucha Corpi is the author of three Gloria Damasco mystery novels to date: Eulogy for a Brown Angel, Cactus Blood, and Black Widow's Wardrobe. Her other books include the novel Delia's Song and two volumes of poetry, Palabras de Mediodia/Noon Words and Variaciones sobre una Tempestad/Variations on a Storm.
From Kirkus Reviews
Eighteen years ago, Licia Rom n Lecuona went to prison for killing her husband when an all-male jury didn't buy her story of nonstop mental and physical abuse. Now that she's served her time, though, the woman called Black Widow seems to be more victim than aggressoror at least that's how it seems to Oakland shamus Gloria Damasco (Cactus Blood, 1995, etc.), who first encounters Black Widow when she's been wounded with a knife just after the celebration of the Day of the Dead. Industrialist Michael Cisneros, who served as executor for the will that left Licia wealthy enough to be worth abusing, hires second-sighted Gloria to find out who's trying to kill Licia. But even before the two haunted women meet, the case is muddied (not for the last time) by the news that Licia considers herself a reincarnation of Malintzin Tenepal, La Malinche, the native woman who, given as a gift to the conquistador Corts, helped him subdue a nation to her everlasting sorrow. Was it La Malinche who raised the weapon against Licia's intolerable husband? Why is someone now following Gloria's every move? What secrets will a trip to Mexico reveal? And how is Licia, in a terrible final parallel between her life and La Malinche's, connected to a ruthless baby- selling racket? Gloria's third is part mystery, part history, part travelogue, part spiritual speculationa busy, many-layered invention stuffed within an inch of its many lives. -- Copyright ©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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- PublisherArte Publico Press
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 1558852883
- ISBN 13 9781558852884
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages193
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