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Who Killed Palomino Molero is a murder mystery who picks up a few characters and locations from The Green House and with an undercurrent of incest and class warfare in the Peru of the 50s. It is well-written, but short and somewhat predictable. Not my favorite Vargas Llosa but nonetheless an entertaining read.

One thing I found particularly interesting was how somewhat similarly to the way that in the Andrea Camilleri series of Montalbano stories where often what looks like a mafia-related crime is not, here we have what looks like a terrorist act, but may be something else entirely.

Fino's Mario Vargas Llosa Reviews:
Fiction
The Cubs and Other Stories (1959) TBR
The Time of the Hero (1963)
The Green House (1966)
Conversation in the Cathedral (1969)
Captain Pantoja and the Special Services (1973)
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (1977)
The War of the End of the World (1981)
The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta (1985)
Who Killed Palomino Molero? (1987)
The Storyteller (1989)
In Praise of the Stepmother (1990)
Death in the Andes (1996)
The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto (1998)
The Feast of the Goat (2001)
The Way to Paradise (2003)
The Bad Girl (2007)
The Dream of the Celt (2010)
The Discrete Hero (2015)
The Neighborhood (2018)
Harsh Times (2021) TBR

Non-Fiction
The Perpetual Orgy (1975)
A Fish Out of Water (1993)
Letters to a Young Novelist (1998)