Fiction. Omar's friend Art Serrano, a world-famous painter, is dead--either that or he's disappeared and has left behind what appears to be a suicide note. As months go by, as Art becomes the focus of a media feeding frenzy, who better to supply the authoritative accounts of his past and present life than his old friend Omar, a journalist, to whom Art's last messages, it turns out, were dedicated? In the meantime, Veronica, a factory-worker- turned-prostitute in Juarez, Mexico, is murdered outside a discotheque attended by ...
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Fiction. Omar's friend Art Serrano, a world-famous painter, is dead--either that or he's disappeared and has left behind what appears to be a suicide note. As months go by, as Art becomes the focus of a media feeding frenzy, who better to supply the authoritative accounts of his past and present life than his old friend Omar, a journalist, to whom Art's last messages, it turns out, were dedicated? In the meantime, Veronica, a factory-worker- turned-prostitute in Juarez, Mexico, is murdered outside a discotheque attended by the city's young and rich. Her roommate, Esme, quickly learns the police have no desire to find the killer. In fact, Vero's death is the most recent in a chain of slayings of hundreds of young girls and women in a city still clinging to the outlaw and desert-saloon mentality that has characterized the northern border for years. She unites with an angry, graying priest, blackballed by the church for his liberal ideologies, and the two attempt to follow the trail of the killers.
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