Lucha Corpi

A Brown Angel Mystery

1 - Eulogy for a Brown Angel (Sep-1992)
2 - Cactus Blood (Apr-1995)
3 - Black Widow's Wardrobe (Dec-1999)
4 - Crimson Moon (Mar-2004)

A Gloria Damasco Mystery

1 - Death at Solstice (Sep-2009)

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  Eulogy for a Brown Angel
  

  • Sep-1992
  • / Private Investigator
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  A Brown Angel Mystery - 1
  

  Eulogy for a Brown Angel began a new chapter in the mystery genre with the creation of the first Chicana detective in American literature. Now available for the first time in paperback, readers can discover, or rediscover, Lucha Corpi’s dynamic det...

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  Cactus Blood
  

  • Apr-1995
  • / Private Investigator
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  A Brown Angel Mystery - 2
  

  Visions of striking rattlesnakes and a crucified woman haunt Gloria Damasco's dreams. Who is the naked woman she sees tied to a cactus cross? And who would do such a horrible thing? Disturbing images and dreams continue to foreshadow the Chicana det...

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  Black Widow's Wardrobe
  

  • Dec-1999
  • / Private Investigator
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  A Brown Angel Mystery - 3
  

  When Gloria Damasco decided to take part in San Francisco's traditional "Day of the Dead" procession, she didn't realize that she'd soon be encountering both a convicted killer - the notorious "Black Widow" - and a bizarre abduction staged by two cos...

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  Crimson Moon
  

  • Mar-2004
  • / Private Investigator
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  A Brown Angel Mystery - 4
  

  A woman’s harrowing fall down the side of a weedy cliff has left her struggling for every breath. A discarded manuscript is found buried under rotting food in a garbage dump. Falsified identities and faces half-hidden in the shadows of the Chicano ...

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  The Triple Banana Split Boy/El Nino Goloso
  

  • Jun-2009
  • / General Fiction
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  ''How come you can have sweets and I can't?'' Enrique asks the hummingbirds as they flutter over the flowers in the garden. His craving for sugar is getting out of control, and his father has forbidden him to eat anything sweet. Enrique's birthday is...

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  Death at Solstice
  

  • Sep-2009
  • / Mystery
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  A Gloria Damasco Mystery - 1
  

  Chicana detective Gloria Damasco has a ''dark gift,'' an extrasensory prescience that underscores her investigations and compels her to solve numerous cases. This time, the recurring vision haunting her dreams contains two pairs of dark eyes watching...

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  Where Fireflies Dance
  

  • Jun-2013
  • / General Fiction
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  In the night sky the moon hangs low and the fireflies flicker. A young girl in a small town explores the haunted house of the revolutionary Juan Sebastian, discovers music on the cantina’s jukebox, and is chided by her mother for mischievousness. I...

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