Nearer Home: A Nola Cespedes Mystery

Written by Joy Castro

Narrated by Roxanne Hernandez

The follow-up to Hell or High Water, Nola Cespedes is back and tracks a brutal murderer.--Early one morning, crime reporter Nola Cespedes goes for her regular run and finds a dead body and decides to investigate. She discovers that the victim was working on two explosive stories, both of which would shock even this notoriously corrupt city. When another murder occurs in the middle of New Orleans's packed Jazz Fest, Nola realizes she could be the killer's next target.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dreamscape Media
• Release date: Jul 16, 2013
• ISBN: 9781666598353

Joy Castro

Joy Castro is the award-winning author of the post-Katrina New Orleans literary thrillers Hell or High Water, which received the Nebraska Book Award, and Nearer Home; the story collection How Winter Began; the memoir The Truth Book; and the essay collection Island of Bones, which received the International Latino Book Award. She is also the editor of the anthology Family Trouble and served as the guest judge of CRAFT’s first Creative Nonfiction Award. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Senses of Cinema, Salon, Ploughshares, Gulf Coast, Brevity, Afro-Hispanic Review, and elsewhere. A former writer-in-residence at Vanderbilt University, she is currently the Willa Cather Professor of English and Ethnic Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.