Her frustration in not getting answers kept me totally hooked as I, too, wanted some more information. I loved that we stayed with Ari and got to see her perspective throughout this story. Over time, as Ari presses her father for answers and does research on her own, she learns more the cartels and what has been going on behind the scenes.

She knows his job is very dangerous as he has been investigating the Mexican drug cartel for years, resulting in a broken marriage and having Ari sent off to the US to live under a fake name in order to protect her.Īfter following the latest news, both the stories reported by the media and the incidents that were swept under the rug, Ari has a bad gut feeling that she knows exactly why her father is here. When Ariana Molina, referred to as Ari, finds out that her father is being held at a hospital after a car crash that left one person dead, she is immediately curious as to why he was in Chicago in the first place. Let’s dive in! My Thoughts on Santa Muerte by Cynthia Pelayo You close your eyes and you allow those silent, anguished, warm tears to roll down your cheeks because they are real and they are yours and no one and nothing can rip them away from you as you were ripped away from this world and your screams your screams are yours, and your memories are yours and you wish you wish you had one more time to tell them all you loved them you wish you wish you had one more time to kiss the noon day sun and you wish you wish the last scent that you smelled was not the ogre above you and you wish you wish this was not the place you would haunt for years and years before they found you, covered in burlap and no way to find you and no way to find you and you will never go home because home was years ago and home was them and all of them have died and your memory fades as they faded and you are released to your second death all because an ogre stole you away.Ĭynthia (Cina) Pelayo is the author of LOTERIA, SANTA MUERTE, THE MISSING, POEMS OF MY NIGHT, and the upcoming CHILDREN OF CHICAGO from Agora/Polis Books.Santa Muerte by Cynthia Pelayo is a gritty young adult mystery about how far people will go for what they believe in, even when death and violence is all around them, and both their nightmares and waking hours are haunted by spirits.

Sometimes you know no one is ever going to find you and sometimes you relinquish your grasp, your hold on this world. The crime must be solved by natural means Making calculations, as Dupin says ratiocination The detective must be continually turning, The mystery, no willful tricks, do not playĭeceptions, but let’s play with the detective

Give the reader ample opportunity to solve Water, books, letters, keys, a herring so red Of things once there and things rearranged The detective story is an intellectual game