Textures of Terror: The Murder of Claudina Isabel Velasquez and Her Father's Quest for Justice

Investigating the unsolved murder of a female law student and the pervasive violence against Guatemalan women that drives migration.

Part memoir and part forensic investigation, Textures of Terror is a gripping first—person story of women, violence, and migration out of Guatemala—and how the United States is implicated. Accompanying Jorge Velásquez in a years—long search for answers after the brutal murder of his daughter Claudina Isabel, Victoria Sanford explores what it means to seek just...