Powerful fiction...a vivid tale of political intrigue and romance by a master of pictorial detail. –
Chicago Tribune Zoot-Suit Murders matches the best of the war novels in its execution, and may be the best of the home-front novels of World War II....The novel alternates between intimacy and sweep, a cinematic quality similar to that of Chinatown, an excellent, near-Hitchcockian technique. – Robert Kirsch,
Los Angeles Times A deeply political book told in hauntingly lyrical prose. –
Washington Post Book World A master writer. –
Vanity Fair Haunting ... Sanchez is a writer of sensitivity and power.–
Boston Globe The no-nonsense tension present in the best of thrillers...Sanchez brings the novel to an unexpected and shocking climax.–
Publishers Weekly [Sanchez is] a writer of enourmous gifts. –
Cleveland Plain Dealer