AWARDS
2005 Lambda Literary Foundation Award for Best Lesbian Mystery
2006 Latino Book Award for Best English-Language Mystery

OTHER NEWS
Now Available in paperback, Italian, and Spanish
Sangre en el desierto, Desert Blood en español, was released Fall 2008 by Arte Publico Press,
translated by the incomparable Juárez poet and writer, Rosario
Sanmiguel. Sangre en el desierto received a 2009 Latino Book Award for Best Spanish-language mystery.
Released in paperback in Fall
2007 (Arte Publico Press).
Desert Blood in Italian! IL DESERTO DELLE MORTI
SILENZIOSE: I Femincidi di Juarez (Desert of the Silent Dead: The
Feminicides of Juárez) by La Nuova Frontiera released in Spring 2007.