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A Death in Mexico [Kindle Edition]

Jonathan Woods (Author)
3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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A voluptuous artists’ model is murdered, her mutilated body dumped in the central plaza of a colonial Mexican town. Inspector Hector Diaz’s murder investigation takes him deep into the town’s gringo expat colony, a modern Mexico corrupted by greed and drugs and the byways and dead-ends of love and lust. Recalling Michael Chabon’s The Yiddish Policemen’s Union in it’s dark humor, moody atmosphere and sense of place, A Death in Mexico is a gritty and gripping quest for revenge and redemption.

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 390 KB
  • Print Length: 230 pages
  • Publisher: New Pulp Press (16 April 2012)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B007UVN02M
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • X-Ray: Not Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #489,870 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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2.0 out of 5 stars Crying out for a good editor... 26 Oct 2012
By Littlehellcat13
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A Death In Mexico could have been so much better with more editorial guidance. The story isn't bad, the main character is quite interesting and the setting is exotic enough to get you reading to the end, but when you do get to the end it feels like a flat glass of soda... With a few pointers the style could have been trimmed to a more pleasant prose, and had that been the case I'd give it 4 stars rather than 2. Got it while it was free to download, and it feels that I got what I paid for...
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4.0 out of 5 stars Superb debut 16 Jun 2012
By Mr. Gareth Price
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In his debut novel Jonathan Woods introduces us to Inspector Hector Diaz as he is charged with investigating the murder of a bohemian, ex pat artists model in a small Mexican town. It is soon evident that all was not as it seems in the models life and Hector is soon chasing down witnesses and suspects while dodging attacks by an old adversary and a mysterious Indian hitman. Backing Hector up with a cast of colourful characters Woods invokes the steamy, sexy and violent side of small town Mexican life and injects it with a wry sense of humour that reminded me of Douglas Lindsays' recent The Unburied Dead in the way it balanced the violence with everyday ordinariness. Hector is a great character, too, priapic,flawed but cool as well and this is hopefully the start of a new series.
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Amazon.com: 3.9 out of 5 stars  14 reviews
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5.0 out of 5 stars A New Voice in Noir 21 April 2012
By Ron Bradford - Published on Amazon.com
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Jonathan Woods made a big splash with his short story collection Bad Juju & Other Tales of Madness and Mayhem and his debut novel shows he's the real deal. While sticking with familiar noir tropes (a hard-drinking detective, a femme fatale), Woods uses surprising plot twists and elegant turns of phrases in this original and compelling mystery. Taking place in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, Woods creates a sense of place that is both exotic and claustrophobic. And the lead detective, Hector Diaz, seems to be a character ready-made for a long series. While New Pulp Press is best known for releasing brilliant if over-the-top "psycho noirs", (The Disassembled Man, The Bastard Hand, Hell on Church Street), A Death in Mexico is more mainstream and accessible--and that's not a bad thing.
1.0 out of 5 stars The Man Can't Write for S*** 29 April 2013
By Kurt A. Reinhardt - Published on Amazon.com
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This is an Extraordinarily Sloppy piece of work. Just count the number of times he uses the word Ancient, or the absurd parade of metaphors about Diaz's brain/head. Even read as a parody of noir it is ridiculous, and the gratuitous sex shock moments distract from the tone of the work. If the plot were better he could get away with the stoned carelessness of the text, but sadly he doesn't.
2.0 out of 5 stars Not My Cup Of Tequila 1 Mar 2013
By ks6007 - Published on Amazon.com
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It is with a sense of relief that I finished this book. I meant to give up on it several times, but I didn't. I wanted to find out who did the murder, I guess. This is why I rated it 2 stars instead of 1. It is not a very good book.

The writer's style is out-and-out annoying. He apparently thinks that he invented the simile, and almost every paragraph contains one: "Darkness spread over the plains like a magician's cloak" and my personal favorite, the body of a character who was shot jerked around "like a dyspeptic hip-hop dancer." Add to this word usage that was at times strange: "his pissant demise", etc. And one character's name changed spelling twice. You get the idea. Hemingway he's not.

The story was an average mystery with a cast of completely unlikable characters: corrupt cops, murderous bums, and every other sort of creepy individual. The "hero," Diaz, spends 40% of his time trying to solve the crime, and 60% drinking and trying to get sex from someone...anyone...everyone! He is often successful, since everyone in San Miguel is as obsessed with sex as he is. I don't know how anyone gets anything done.

This is a low brow book that is not for easily offended people or English teachers.
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