Mario Vargas Llosa

5 New Books to Read this Week: February 27, 2018

By Crime HQ

February 28, 2018

Every Wednesday, we here at Criminal Element will put together a list of Staff Picks of the books that published the day before—sharing the ones that we are looking forward to reading the most! This week, the highly anticipated new novel from John Hart highlights an incredible week of books! See what else we're reading:

Mario Vargas Llosa Excerpt: The Neighborhood

By Mario Vargas Llosa

February 2, 2018

The Neighborhood by Mario Vargas Llosa (translated by Edith Grossman) is a politically charged detective novel and a thrilling tale of desire and Peruvian corruption that swirls around a scandalous exposé that leads to murder (available February 27, 2018). In the 1990s, during the turbulent and deeply corrupt years of Alberto Fujimori’s presidency, two wealthy…