Crime and Consequences: Readings from New Novels

An epidemic of violence is sweeping the country: musicians are being murdered onstage in the middle of their sets by members of their audience in Destroy All Monsters: The Last Rock Novel by Jeff Jackson. From Martin Solares, a writer whose work has been praised as “Latin American fiction at its pulpy phantasmagorical finest,” Don’t Send Flowers is a novel centered on a retired police detective in northern Mexico who has to go up against corruption and widespread violence.