A DEATH IN MEXICO IS “BRUTAL AS THE KICK OF RAW MESCAL…POWERFUL.” (Publishers Weekly)

A voluptuous artist’s model is murdered in the central plaza of a colonial Mexican town.  Inspector Hector Diaz’s murder investigation takes him deep into the town’s gringo expat colony, a modern Mexico corrupted by greed and drugs and the byways and dead-ends of love and lust. A Death in Mexico is a gritty and gripping quest for revenge and redemption.

“One of the five top debut crime novels of 2012.  A wonderful lurid mystery featuring the engaging hero Inspector Hector Diaz, a rumpled Mexican cop full of vices and all the right virtues.” – Scott Montgomery, MysteryPeople blog, BookPeople Bookstore, Austin, Texas

“A Death in Mexico is a great and telling ride south of the border into madness and mayhem.  I loved it.” – Michael Connelly, prize-winning author of The Lincoln Lawyer and the Harry Bosch crime novels.

“Lowbrow and brilliant noir.” – New York Magazine

“A deft, fast-paced whodunit that delivers on the promise of Bad Juju & Other Tales of Madness and Mayhem, Woods’ award-winning story collection.” – ForeWord Reviews

“Brutal as the kick of raw mescal…powerful.” – Publishers Weekly

“An outrageous and unruly mescal-soaked murder mystery.” – Cullen Gallagher, Los Angeles Review of Books

“This stylish, gritty, no-holds-barred novel establishes Woods as a master storyteller in the tradition of Chandler, Hammett and Mosley” – Ben Fountain, PEN/Hemingway Award-winning author of Brief Encounters with Che Guevara and the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk

A Death in Mexico book trailer link:  http://vimeo.com/42008429

Jonathan’s previous book of noir crime stories, Bad Juju & Other Tales of Madness and Mayhem, won a 2011 Spinetingler Award for Best Crime Short Story Collection and was a featured book at the 2010 Texas Book Festival.

Jonathan’s latest story appears in the anthology Murder in Key West, an ebook from Absolutely Amazing eBooks.

Jonathan’s website is:  http://www.southernnoir.com/

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