Libros de Alicia Gaspar De Alba (2 libros)

When Ivón Villa goes from El Paso Texas to Mexico to adopt a baby, he find that the baby's mother has been murdered. He is soon involved with a rash of serial killings in this suspenseful novel.

It's the summer of 1998 and for five years over a hundred mangled and desecrated bodies have been found dumped in the Chihuahua desert outside of Juarez, México, just across the river from El Paso, Texas. The perpetrators of the ever-rising number of violent deaths target poor young women, terrifying inhabitants on both sides of the border. El Paso native Ivon Villa has returned to her hometown to adopt the baby of Cecilia, a pregnant maquiladora worker in Juarez. When Cecilia turns up strangled and disemboweled in the desert, Ivon is thrown into the churning chaos of abuse and murder. Even...