Ever wondered what Franz Kafka would make of present day America?

THE MILAGRO MYSTERIES

Welcome to Milagro boom and bust town nestled between mountains, mesas and desert badlands; home to the mad, the bad and the conflicted. Meet Franz Kafka, unlikely officer of the law, the most conflicted of them all…

 

“FRANZ KAFKA, dba “K”, protagonist: Welsh. Jewish. Intellectual. Cop in small-town Milagro, New Mexico. KATAYOUN MEDHAT, author of the Milagro Mysteries: Iranian born, educated in Berlin and London, PhD in medical anthropology. Unlikely? Yes! But, after all, Kazuo Ishiguro wrote Remains of the Day. Katayoun Medhat is the literary cousin of Tony and Anne Hillerman, her sleuths, Milagro’s “K” and Diné (Navajo) Nation tribal police officer Robby Begay the soul brothers of the Hillermans’ Leaphorn and Chee. Steeped in the landscape of the Land of Enchantment with all its harsh beauty, cultural diversity, prejudices, history of exploitation, and present-day challenges, Lacandon Dreams, like The Quality of Mercy, is a literary page-turner. By the way, ‘milagro’ in Spanish means ‘magic’. There’s that, too, in Medhat’s prose.” Sara Pritchard, author of Help Wanted: Female

 

“Why these novels aren’t on the way to a Netflix studio right now is beyond me. Whoever gets to play detective Franz Kafka will have the role of a lifetime.” Mark Stevens, author of the Allison Coil Mysteries