AUTHOR | Kerry Edwards

In a place where lives are cheap, love comes at a price. La Santa Muerte, which is set in Tijuana, Mexico, is my debut novel.

I worked in New York as a designer in the fashion industry and have travelled widely through America, South America and Asia.

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Maria is a bright, attractive and happy 16 year old living in Tijuana, Mexico. On the outskirts of her happy existence lies a city under siege, a melting pot where cultures clash and warring drug cartels rule, a criminal underworld of gangsters who worship self-made unholy saints.

Maria befriends Antonio, a popular and sporty boy in her school, and they soon become lovers. Maria's world is turned upside down when Antonio suddenly leaves without trace. She despairs of finding him in a community where men disappear constantly, where there is a violent,bloody war and Tijuana is the front line.

QUOTES I LOVE

AUTHORS I ADMIRE

• barbara kingsolver

  She is an epic writer - The Poisonwood Bible, The Lacuna and many others. She is superbly accomplished and writes contemporary American fiction. The Lacuna is set in Mexico.

• benjamin zephaniah

  The most amazing living poet who speaks to the people who live in his stories. I love his YA series, especially Face.

• Donna tartt

  The Goldfinch is a fantastic story with some huge and amazing characters. Boris is a character who haunts my dreams. Her writing borders on the fantastical and yet it is set in contemporary times.

Books I LOVE

I love just about everything Isabelle Allende has written but especially Maya's Notebook which deals with a disturbed young girl growing up in USA who finds a reason to live in her maternal home of Chile. The subject matter is difficult and the writer handles it with great intelligence. Never shying away from the gritty reality. Of course, I am very interested in this subject as it deals with life in contemporary US as well as South America and it is YA fiction.

First-time author Leslye Walton with The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender. This is young adult fiction, magical realism, lyrical prose and the pain and passion of human love.

MY NEXT NOVEL

La Santa Muerte is the first book in a trilogy. My second book is called Santos Profanos and should be out by the end of this year, so watch this space!