
Egdar Lefty Mendieta investigates the death of a notorious stripper in this second sweltering Narco-lit noir from the Godfather of Mexican crime fiction An intelligent atmospheric police procedural series for fans of John Le Carre & Mick Heron When the mutilated body of Mayra Cabral de Melo is found in a dusty field Detective Edgar Lefty Mendieta has personal reasons for bringing the culprit to justice Mayra a well-known stripper had no shortage of ardent deluded & downright dangerous admirers & Lefty himself is haunted by the night he spent in her company As Mexico's drug war ramps up Lefty's pursuit of a gallery of jealous & powerful suspects all with a murderous glint in their eye leads him to Samantha Valdes the godfather's daughter who is battling to retain her father's empire & as the mystery deepens the bodycount rises