The Daughters of Juárez: A True Story of Serial Murder South of the Border by Teresa Rodriguez, Diana Montané , Lisa Pulitzer (Contributer)

The Daughters of Juárez reads like a long criminal report. It details a rich tapestry of police and governmental brutality, corruption, blatant sexual discrimination, disregard for public safety, and incompetence.

These young women are murdered savagely and there corpses left behind to rot in the hot desert heat. The crimes are shocking and the ineptness of the police will leave you angry and chill you to the bone.

Many are accused of the crimes and some are sentenced yet the body count continues to pile up with no end in sight. The stunning account will make you weep for the countless deaths of women and cry out for justice for the families, the victims and the city of Juarez.

This book can at times be difficult to read not because of the graphic nature of the crimes but because is jumps around.

Grade: B+

Synopsis For more than twelve years, the city of Juárez, Mexico -- just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas -- has been the center of a horrific crime wave against women and girls. Consisting of kidnappings, rape, mutilation, and murder, most of the atrocities have involved young, slender, and poor victims -- fueling the premise that the murders are not random. As for who is behind the crimes themselves, the answer remains unknown -- though many have speculated that the killers are American citizens, and others have argued that the killings have become a sort of blood sport due to the lawlessness of the city itself. And despite numerous arrests over the last ten years, the murders continue to occur, with the killers growing bolder, dumping bodies in the city itself rather than on the outskirts of town, as was initially the case, indicating a possible growing and most alarming alliance of silence and cover-up by Mexican politicians. Now, in The Daughters of Juárez, the authors provide the first eye-opening and authoritative nonfiction work of its kind, examining the brutal killings and drawing attention to these startling atrocities on the border. The end result will shock readers and become required reading on the subject for years to come.