Mexico City Noir (19 page)

P
ACO
I
GNACIO
T
AIBO
II
(born in Gijón, Spain, 1949) is the founder of the Mexican neodetective story, author of more than fifteen crime-fiction novels published in twenty-eight countries, and three-time winner of the Hammett Prize. He is the author of
Cuatro manos
(
Four Hands), Retornamos como sombras (Returning as Shadows)
, and
La bicicleta de Leonardo (Leonardo’s Bicycle)
, among others, as well as the Héctor Belascoarán Shayne mystery series.