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    Hurricane: A Short Story

    By R. Narvaez

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    A luckless womanizer visiting Puerto Rico for his cousin’s wedding; a dark, beautiful woman who needs a favor; and a rare Indian artifact people would kill to get their hands on—all of it amidst an approaching tropical storm that may be only the beginning of the violence. That’s the story of “Hurricane”—from dynamite noir writer R. Narvaez, whose work has appeared in Indian Country Noir and Long Island Noir.

    “Hurricane” also appears (as “Juracán”) in Roachkiller and Other Stories, the debut collection of short stories from noir writer R. Narvaez. The collection includes 10 hard-boiled tales, many with a dash of dark humor. Get-rich schemes gone violently awry. A slacker detective far out of his depth. A reformed criminal who can’t get past his killer instincts. The action moves from Brooklyn to Puerto Rico, from the ’70s to the near future, from deadly divorces to homicidal hipsters. Narvaez travels down the dimly lit side streets of noir you’ve never seen before.

    Contents of Roachkiller and Other Stories

    In the Kitchen with Johnny Albino
    Juracán
    Roachkiller
    GhostD
    Santa’s Little Helper
    Unsynchronicity
    Ibarra Goes Down
    Watching the Iguanas
    Rough Night in Toronto
    Zinger

    “Plenty of good surprises [in this book]: R. Narvaez in [‘Hurricane’] tells a story set in Puerto Rico among the legends of the Tainos, stolen artifacts, double- and triple-crosses, uneasy justice.”
    —Manuel Ramos, author of King of the Chicanos, on the collection Indian Country Noir

    “Hilarious and memorable.”
    —Kirkus Reviews, on the story “Hating Holly Hernandez” in the collection You Don’t Have a Clue

    Author Bio

    Nuyorican writer R. Narvaez was born and raised in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. His fiction has been published in Mississippi Review, Murdaland, Street Magazine, Thrilling Detective, Indian Country Noir, Long Island Noir, Hit List: The Best of Latino Mystery, and You Don’t Have a Clue: Latino Mystery Stories for Teens. His short story "Roachkiller" was selected as a Distinguished Mystery Story in Best American Mystery Stories 2008, edited by George Pelecanos. He blogs at Nuyorican Obituary.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBeyond the Page Publishing
    Release dateMar 28, 2012
    ISBN9781937349325
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