Mexico City Noir

PACO IGNACIO TAIBO II (born in Gijon, Spain, 1949) is the founder of the Mexican neodetective story, author of more than fifteen crime-fiction novels published in twenty-eight countries, and three-time winner of the Hammett Prize. He is the author of Cuatro manos (Four Hands), Retornamos como sombras (Returning as Shadows), and La bicicleta de Leonardo (Leonardo’s Bicycle), among others, as well as the Hector Belascoaran Shayne mystery series.

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