American corporations are using the North American Free Trade Agreement by opening large maquiladoras right across the United States–Mexico border. The maquiladoras hire mostly Mexican women to work long hours for little money in order to produce mass quantity products. Lauren Adrian, an impassioned American news reporter for the Chicago Sentinel wants to be assigned to the Iraq front-lines to cover the war. Instead, her editor George Morgan assigns her to investigate a series of slayings involving young maquiladora factory women in a Mexican bordertown.

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A young journalist uncovers an assassination disguised as a suicide, linked to an American multinati...

When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital dire...

In a dysfunctional family where the mother is a heroin addict and prostitute, beaten by her son, and...

After serving time for sexual assault, a disgraced cop finds work as a private detective and becomes...

Laura abandons her peaceful life as a doctor to avenge her sister, who was cheated by a band of porn...

At the library, Sung-mo picks up the ringing phone of a person on the opposite side of his desk in a...

A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the author...

Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to int...

Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufr...

Former policeman Lenny Nero has moved into a more lucrative trade: the illegal sale of virtual reali...

In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with un...

The Maclean brothers, Paul and Norman, live a relatively idyllic life in rural Montana, spending muc...

A British crime novelist travels to her publisher's upmarket summer house in Southern France to seek...

In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman,...

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty yea...