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Marcos McPeek Villatoro is the author of six novels, two collections of poetry, and a memoir. His Romilia Chacon crime fiction books have won national acclaim (named a Best Book by the Los Angeles Times) and have been translated into German, Russian, Portuguese, and Japanese. Villatoro holds the Fletcher Jones Endowed Chair in Writing at Mount St. Mary's University, where he lectures on poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and his Latino and Appalachian heritages. He lives in Los Angeles, California. For more about the author's work, visit www.thewritingbull.com.

"A neat, Hitchcockian thriller. . . . Let's hope there are real FBI agents as brilliant as Romilia Chacon." (Washington Post [for A Venom Beneath the Skin]) "Rich in history and myth, rich in setting, rich in character. This book reminded me of The Da Vinci Code. It is a pleasure from start to finish." -T. Jefferson Parker, Edgar Award-winning author of A Thousand Steps [for Minos]. "Scintillating, densely plotted. . . . Villatoro creates a compelling, dramatic balance." -Publishers Weekly (starred review) [for Minos] "Charles Dickens, or more recently Joyce Carol Oates and Margaret Atwood, have used the crime novel to eloquently express themselves. . . . Add to that chorus of writers the name . . . Marcos McPeek Villatoro." -Los Angeles Times Book Review [for Home Killings]