![]() ![]() “In Mexico,” Melchor said in an interview with press from El Salvador, “they kill journalists, but they don’t kill writers, and anyways, fiction protects you.” Melchor settled, instead, on a work of fiction. But in Veracruz, a journalist asking too many questions draws the wrong kind of attention. At first she imagined writing a Capote-esque work of nonfiction about the crime informed by interviews with the suspect and the village’s residents, an In Cold Blood set in Mexico. Melchor became fascinated with the story. A detail stood out: The victim was a known witch, and the suspect, a former lover, took his revenge when he realized the Witch had cast a spell for him to return. While working as a journalist in Veracruz, Fernanda Melchor came across a report of a body found in a ditch outside a small village. ![]()
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