Fernanda Melchor Books in Order

Children discover the body of a figure known as the Witch near a Mexican village's irrigation canals. Shifting, unreliable perspectives reveal the lives surrounding the murder, exposing entrenched violence, misogyny, poverty, and the force of rumor.

Within a luxury Mexican housing complex, resident Franco and teenage gardener Polo drink together and dwell on frustrated desires. Their resentments produce a violent scheme in a novel examining inequality, misogyny, and the gulf between privilege and deprivation.

Narrative nonfiction pieces explore crimes and unusual lives around Veracruz, drawing on real events and imaginative reconstruction. Melchor examines the circumstances and desires behind shocking headlines, revealing social violence and instability beneath the easy division between victims and monsters.