Lucha Corpi's Gloria Damasco Mystery Series
This series contains four mysteries featuring incisive Chicana detective Gloria Damasco, whose "dark gift," an extrasensory prescience, underscores her investigations and compels her to solve numerous cases.
 Eulogy for a Brown Angel: A Gloria Damasco Mystery 2002, 192 pages, Trade Paperback, $12.95 A Chicano Civil Rights march has been disrupted by the Los Angeles police, resulting in the gruesome death of a prominent reporter. A feisty political activist finds a murdered child and begins an investigation that will lead her on a trail of international conspiracy and bloody vengeance. "Dazzling evocative prose . . . some original and highly charged moments . . . Corpi expands the genre with this work." —Publishers Weekly "The bloody conclusion adds an extra wallop to the convoluted goings-on . . . worthwhile mystery reading." —Kirkus Reviews For more information, click here. |
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2009, 256 pages, Trade Paperback (new), $15.95 Historic settings, California panoramas, and Hispanic culture texture this suspenseful search for a ritualistic assassin in the second novel featuring Chicana detective Gloria Damasco. "A shattering conclusion, complete with the requisite gunplay, leaves the reader eager for the next episode of this excellent homage to detective fiction." —San Francisco Chronicle
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1999, 208 pages, Trade Paperback, $12.95 Was it a specter from the past, some Aztec revenant that inspired the "Black Widow" to kill her husband? Or did these chilling murders have to do with greed? Who better than Gloria Damasco, the detective with a flair for clairvoyance, to unravel this intricate and pulsing plot. "A nicely curlicued plot . . . that keeps the pages flying. Strongly recommended." —Library Journal "Part mystery, part history, part travelogue, part spiritual speculation—a busy, many-layered invention stuffed within an inch of its many lives." —Kirkus Reviews For more information, click here.
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2009, 256 pages, Trade Paperback, $15.95 This time, Gloria Damasco has been called upon by the owners of the Oro Blanco winery in California's Shenandoah Valley seeking her help. And she can't help but wonder if her ever-more persistent visions—two pairs of dark eyes watching her, a phantom horse and rider, the sensation of being trapped underwater—might foreshadow this new case that involves the theft of a family heirloom, a pair of antique diamond and emerald earrings rumored to have belonged to Mexico's Empress Carlota. But Gloria learns that there's more to the case than stolen jewelry. Mysterious accidents, threatening anonymous notes, the disappearance of a woman believed to be a saint, and a ghost horse thought to have belonged to notorious bandit Joaquín Murrieta are some of the pieces Gloria struggles to fit together. A gruesome murder sends her on a fateful journey to a Witches' Sabbath to find the final pieces of the puzzle before someone else is killed. "This multilayered plot full of California history and Latin American lore will interest a wide variety of mystery readers." —Booklist |
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Cactus Blood: A Gloria Damasco Mystery
Black Widow's Wardrobe: A Gloria Damasco Mystery
Death at Solstice: A Gloria Damasco MysteryFor more information, click here.
LUCHA CORPI is a poet, novelist, and children's book author. She was a tenured teacher in the Oakland Public Schools Neighborhood Centers Program for over 30 years. For more information, click here.
