John Lantigua Books in Order

A Salvadoran refugee is murdered in San Francisco in a manner that suggests a death squad. Detective David Cruz searches the Mission District, uncovering a dangerous network of political enemies and profiteers preying on displaced Central Americans.

A car bomb outside Jack Lacey's Costa Rican nightclub kills a man who had asked him for refuge. As Inspector Eddie Santos investigates, Jack pursues his own answers among diplomats, political factions, and people concealing dangerous interests.

Journalist Edward Thomas arrives in Paradise, Texas, to investigate an assault and discovers that a tornado has exposed another violent crime. His inquiries draw him into religious conflict, buried land disputes, and the town's corrosive greed.

Willie Cuesta searches for a missing man who has become obsessed with his parents' long-ago murder in Cuba. A vanished casino fortune, former spies, and organized crime make the Miami investigator's case increasingly dangerous.

A family friend asks Willie Cuesta to find a missing cigar salesman. The search pulls the Miami private investigator into smuggling, counterfeit Cuban cigars, and murder, eventually taking him to the Dominican Republic for answers.

An Argentine woman asks Willie Cuesta to investigate a young woman she believes is her dead sister's daughter. The Miami detective's search reaches back to Argentina's dirty war and the secrets surrounding children taken from disappeared parents.

A wealthy Colombian woman hires Willie Cuesta to protect her son and his girlfriend from kidnappers. When the girlfriend is abducted, Willie investigates the family's hidden connections, following a dangerous trail through Miami and Colombia.

Political hostility drives Americans to migrate into ideologically separate communities. As schemers profit from the upheaval and extremists work toward dividing the country, this satire imagines a national fracture fueled by opportunism, intolerance, and partisan obsession.

John Lantigua recounts being smuggled across the Mexican border through Arizona's desert and onward toward Florida. His reporting follows the dangerous journey faced by migrants, bringing their vulnerability and the realities of clandestine travel into close view.

Willie Cuesta travels to central Florida to locate an undocumented farmworker who has stopped contacting his family. Other disappearances and deaths turn the assignment into a dangerous investigation involving migrant labor, armed extremists, and secrets near the Everglades.

Twelve stories follow Miami private investigator Willie Cuesta as he helps people across the city's Latin American communities. Kidnapping, extortion, and revenge bring personal danger, while old conflicts from their countries of origin continue to shadow his clients.