La Bestia delves into the chilling and twisted psyche of a serial killer, pulling readers into a world where darkness knows no bounds. The book unveils the life of a man whose monstrous acts left a trail of horror and devastation. From his troubled childhood to the development of his bloodthirsty impulses, La Bestia dissects the making of a killer, unraveling the haunting events and psychological scars that shaped his insidious nature.The narrative takes readers beyond the headline...

La Bestia delves into the chilling and twisted psyche of a serial killer, pulling readers into a world where darkness knows no bounds. The book unveils the life of a man whose monstrous acts left a trail of horror and devastation. From his troubled childhood to the development of his bloodthirsty impulses, La Bestia dissects the making of a killer, unraveling the haunting events and psychological scars that shaped his insidious nature.The narrative takes readers beyond the headlines...

**In the spirit of Oliver Sacks and the inspiration for the NBC drama New Amsterdam, this memoir from a Medical Director of Bellevue Hospital looks poignantly at patients' lives, highlighting the complex mind-body connection."As intensely involving as any scripted for a television medical drama." —The New York Daily News**Twelve Patients shows the plights of twelve very different patients—from dignitaries at the nearby UN, to supermax prisoners at...

A veteran, award-winning journalist and a former New York Times correspondent and true crime writer team up to create the first major nonfiction work based on the ongoing, international phenomenon of over 300 confirmed female homicides—and hundreds more missin—in the bordertown of Juarez, Mexico.Despite the fact that Juarez is a Mexican border city just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas, most Americans are unaware that for decades this city has bee...

NPR, One of the Best Books of the YearA “chilling but fascinating portrait” of a serial killer and “a must-read for true crime fans” who enjoyed My Dark Places**,** The Stranger Beside Me**, or** I’ll Be Gone In the Dark (Buzzfeed)One of Argentina’s most innovative writers brings to life the story...

A searing collection of true stories from “one of Mexico’s most exciting new voices” (The Guardian)LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL TRANSLATION AWARD IN PROSESet in and around the Mexican city of Veracruz, This Is Not Miami delivers a series of devastating stories—spiraling from real events—that bleed together reportage and the author’s rich and rigorous imagination. These narrative nonfiction pieces probe deeply into the ...

The anticipated American debut of one of Granta’s Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists: a daring, deeply affecting novel about the secrets buried in the past of an Argentine family.A young writer, living abroad, makes the journey home to South America to say good-bye to his dying father. In his parents’ house, he finds a cache of documents—articles, maps, photographs—and unwittingly begins to unearth his father’s obsession with the disappearance of a local man. Suddenly h...

A Rio de Janeiro ThrillerCopacabana, Rio de Janeiro. Three policemen have been killed over the course of a few days. Espinosa, chief of the 12th Precinct, doesn't have much to go on. When the body of a woman connected to one of the dead cops is found on the sidewalk below her apartment window, things get even more complicated, as a reputed "witness"—the wife of a high-ranking government official—becomes obsessed with the case, and with Espinosa.Nothing is q...

“A haunted, haunting examination of mental illness and murder in a more or less ordinary American city…Mature and thoughtful…A Helter Skelter for our time, though without a hint of sensationalism—unsettling in the extreme but written with confidence and deep empathy” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).On March 11, 2003, in Brownsville, Texas—one of America’s poorest cities—John Allen Rubio and Angela Camacho murdered their three young children. The ...

Tom Brungar grew up in a comfortable Norwegian environment. He became a ski champion for the Norwegian King’s Ski team. He was destined to have the perfect life… with the perfect wife… and the perfect corporate job. But, the pressure of his perfect world… led him to drug abuse… and to a secret life where he was forced to be an international drug courier… captured and imprisoned in Mexico… Tom suffered five years of torture inhumane ...

An incandescent new voice from Mexico, for readers of Ben Lerner and Rachel CuskSitting at the bedside of his mother as she is dying from leukemia in a hospital in northern Mexico, the narrator of Tomb Song is immersed in memories of his unstable boyhood and youth. His mother, Guadalupe, was a prostitute, and Julián spent his childhood with his half brothers and sisters, each from a different father, moving from city to city and from one tough neighborhood...

A buoyant account of the nightly tug-of-war between a sleepy father and his son, and the richly imaginative "sleepy stories" they createEach story told in Sleepy Stories drifts deeper into a beguiling dream world, telling of an elastic gentleman who stretches his body across town to effortlessly slip into bed, or of another sleepy young man who curls inside an upside-down umbrella to take a snooze. In Diego Bianki's magical universe, the waking world is ma...