Lacandon Dreams: A Milagro Mystery

by Katayoun Medhat

Overview

Franz Kafka, cop and patron saint of lost causes, doesn’t let rules and common sense get in the way of the good fight.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781948585057
Publisher:	Leapfrog Press
Publication date:	09/01/2018
Series:	Milagro Mysteries Series , #2
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Katayoun Medhat was raised in Iran and Germany, studied anthropology in Berlin and London, and worked in an adolescent psychiatric unit, learning much about human resilience. She practiced as an intercultural psychotherapist before earning her PhD in medical anthropology, which led her to the Navajo Nation.

Editorial Reviews

2019-06-17
San Matteo County cop Franz Kafka, known as "K," investigates a missing girl, unprepared for what he might find or how.

It's no hardship for K (The Quality of Mercy, 2017) to visit the XOX Energy Corporation's headquarters in hopes of rattling Lucky Easton. After all, what kind of cop would K be if he weren't also a defender of nature, including fighting the guys who run the oil company that's destroying Quorum Valley's ecosystem? And Easton has been violating the terms of a DWI that K got him for, notably earning the label "motherfracker" in the process. K thinks nothing of the woman who's in Easton's office at the time until she shows up to report that her 15-year-old sister is missing. Luisa is two hours and twenty minutes late getting home from school, so K isn't too worried, but Maribel stresses that Luisa is a good girl who has no reason to disappear. After looking into it just a bit, K learns that however good Luisa is, she seems to have some sort of dark streak, evidenced by a very not-good-girl web presence. But all may not be what it seems. It's hard to know if Maribel wants to portray Luisa as good because of the reputation a Latinx might have with her fellow white high schoolers, like Easton's twin daughters. Though sometime collaborator Redwater Navajo Tribal Police Officer Robbie Begay is recovering from a gunshot wound, he's game to help K, who especially welcomes his insight into the serenity Luisa's grandmother has about the girl's disappearance. From the pueblo, Luisa's grandmother has a dream that tells her all is well. If K and Begay can only interpret the dream successfully, they may be able to find Luisa.

Medhat's second novel, torn between solving mysteries and delving into Southwestern cultural details, is more successful in the latter.

Kirkus Reviews