Great read. The author wrote a story that was interesting and moved at a pace that kept me engaged. The characters were easy to invest in.

I was not able to finish this book. It was too confusing to me. Since this is written in so many different view points, I found it very difficult to separate them I. My mind as there was no delineation in the book. It just abruptly changed from one view to another.

At the beginning, it is not clear that there is a order at all, as a dance teacher Joan calls the police to report the death of her neighbour, Estella. The reaction of the husband Jaime to a little questioning, however, does convince the police that his wife's disappearance may be suspicious. When dead bodies start to turn up at a building site, detective Morades is sure there is a new serial killer on the US/Mexican border.

Actually...it is not that simple. Estelle has been kidnapped rather than murdered, to blackmail Jaime into a jacking job that may expose many members of a cross-border smuggling cartel. Yet Estelle could be exposed to the killer if she is not rescued.....

Buried Ladies promises many twists and turns to the plot and of these there truly are aplenty. Actually I would have been happy with a whole lot fewer twists and turns. In real.life I know the speed of events can outpace what happens to the individual players caught up within it, but the effect of this gore was that it then became difficult to care what happened to be characters within it, or for the story to retain so much in terms of suspense and mystery. Too many chsracters end up becoming throwaway characters.

Those who live on the US/Mexican border might enjoy the detail an description of how this part of the world is drawn, though.