Marcos M. Villatoro

A Romilia Chacon Novel

1 - Home Killings (Mar-2001)
2 - Minos (Sep-2003)
3 - Venom Beneath the Skin (May-2005)
4 - Blood Daughters (Oct-2011)

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  A Fire in the Earth
  

  • Jan-1996
  • / Historical
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  This moving novel captures the trials of El Salvador during the first three decades of this century, setting the stage for the tragedies of the last twenty years. Fast-paced, yet poetic, this epic novel is a monument to the people of El Salvador and ...

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  The Holy Spirit of My Uncle's: Cojones
  

  • Jan-1999
  • / General Fiction
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  Fiction. Latino/a Studies. It's the spring of 1978 and sixteen-year-old Antonio (Tony) McCaugh has just tried slashing his wrists. His mother arranges for her despondent son to spend the summer with his Uncle Jack in California as a sure-fire plan fo...

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  Home Killings
  

  • Mar-2001
  • / Police Procedural
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  A Romilia Chacon Novel - 1
  

  The award-winning Home Killings, Marcos M. Villatoro’s first Romilia Chacón novel, won dazzling acclaim for its fusion of character, suspense, and a gripping police procedural swirling around a fiery Latina detective. Now, in a new novel filled wi...

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  Minos
  

  • Sep-2003
  • / Police Procedural
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  A Romilia Chacon Novel - 2
  

  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. Now, in a new novel filled with ...

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  Venom Beneath the Skin
  

  • May-2005
  • / Police Procedural
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  A Romilia Chacon Novel - 3
  

  Latina detective Romilia Chacón 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 the FBI, Romilia is the only link to a legenda...

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  Blood Daughters
  

  • Oct-2011
  • / Police Procedural
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  A Romilia Chacon Novel - 4
  

  A riveting thriller by the author of A Venom Beneath the Skin starring “his fascinatingly flawed Salvadoran protagonist . . . [a] very human heroine” (Booklist).   A child dies on the border between California and Mexico. This is nothing new...

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