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==Crime==
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{{newreview
|author=Sam Hawken
|title=The Dead Women of Juarez
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Although the story related here is a work of fiction, the situation is based on fact. The Mexican border city of Juárez has a shocking problem with female homicides (usually young and invariably pretty). Official statistics put the number of murders at 400 since 1993 while, we are told, residents believe that the true number of disappeared women is closer to 5000. But attention to this problem is diverted by drug crime, although the two may not be entirely unrelated. Anything that raises public awareness of this terrible situation, such as Hawken's book, is to be encouraged.
So much for the fact, what about the fiction?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668773X</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Denise Mina and Antonio Fuso
