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Mexican Federal Agent Marcos Camarena dedicated his life to the job. But in a country where white knights die meaningless deaths, martyred in a hole with fifty other headless bodies in the desert, corruption is not an attribute but a scale, no longer a stigma but the status quo.When Marcos's life is threatened, he leaves law enforcement and his life in Mexico City behind for a coastal resort town-until an old friend asks him to look after an o...

The Wind in the Willows meets Fargo, in this gripping tale of murder and revenge in a tight-knit community of woodland animals.

Mexican Federal Agent Marcos Camarena dedicated his life to the job. But in a country where white knights die meaningless deaths, martyred in a hole with fifty other headless bodies in the desert, corruption is not an attribute but a scale, no longer a stigma but the status quo. When Marcos's life is threatened, he leaves law enforcement and his life in Mexico City behind for a coastal resort town--until an old friend asks him to look after an...

Safe Inside the Violence is an unforgettable collection of thirteen contemporary crime stories that shows why LitReactor wrote: "Irvin's tone is lightening fast, hard hitting, and leaves the reader breathless and shocked with the sudden and realistic portrayal of violence." Irvin offers readers a world of battered men and women who confront a bleak and brooding world with dignity that, unlike spines, doesn't shatter easily.

An imaginative spin on the crime fiction genre." -The New York Times"An absorbing tale of mystery and longing and the dark struggles of the human condition, I was completely swept up by this anthropomorphized society." -Diane Les Becquets, bestselling author of Breaking Wild"Ragged is a vivid fever dream, mixing Roald Dahl, Wes Anderson, Watership Down, and Jim Thompson. As impressive and convincing the world Irvin creates is, the real triumph...

Mirna Fowler believes she has been cheated in life, growing up in a broken home alone with a drunken and gambling-addicted father. Now she works at a small hair salon in Reno, doing her best to survive while she saves money for school. Hoping to get a degree that will take her places. But in the wake of her father's death, Mirna inherits his extravagant debt, an amount of money she can never repay. As her fractured world begins to crumble, the...

Mirna Fowler believes she has been cheated in life, growing up in a broken home alone with a drunken and gambling-addicted father. Now she works at a small hair salon in Reno, doing her best to survive while she saves money for school. Hoping to get a degree that will take her places. But in the wake of her father's death, Mirna inherits his extravagant debt, an amount of money she can never repay. As her fractured world begins to crumble, ...

Safe Inside the Violence is an unforgettable collection of 13 crime stories that shows why LitReactor wrote: "Irvin's tone is lightening fast, hard hitting, and leaves the reader breathless and shocked with the sudden and realistic portrayal of violence." Praise for Safe Inside the Violence: "A fine collection of crime stories told from the point of view of regular people, forgotten people, and their painfully human decisions are a roadmap to ...