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Books set in Peru:


Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa
The Heights of Macchu Picchu by Pablo Neruda
The Bad Girl by Mario Vargas Llosa
Red April by Santiago Roncagliolo
The Storyteller by Mario Vargas Llosa
The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
Seven Interpretive Essays on Peruvian Reality by José Carlos Mariátegui
Letters of a Peruvian Woman by Françoise de Graffigny
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Trail of Feathers: In Search of the Birdmen of Peru by Tahir Shah
Who Killed Palomino Molero? by Mario Vargas Llosa
Don't Tell Anyone by Jaime Bayly
The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto by Mario Vargas Llosa
A World for Julius: A Novel by Alfredo Bryce Echenique
The Way to Paradise by Mario Vargas Llosa
Tarzan's Tonsillitis: A Novel by Alfredo Bryce Echenique
The Cubs and Other Stories by Mario Vargas Llosa
The Moche Warrior by Lyn Hamilton
Lima Nights by Marie Arana
The Last Days of the Incas by Kim MacQuarrie
The Inca by Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa
A Fish in the Water: A Memoir by Mario Vargas Llosa
Captain Pantoja and the Special Service by Mario Vargas Llosa
In Praise of the Stepmother: A Novel by Mario Vargas Llosa
Peruvian Traditions by Ricardo Palma
Inca Gold by Clive Cussler
Making Indigenous Citizens by Maria Elena Garcia
Pyramids of Tucume: The Quest for Peru's Forgotten City by Thor Heyerdahl
The Time of the Hero by Mario Vargas Llosa
Wizard of the Upper Amazon by F. Bruce Lamb
The Hungry Dogs by Ciro Alegria
Conversation in the Cathedral by Mario Vargas Llosa
Turn Right at Machu Picchu by Mark Adams
Deep Rivers by José Maria Arguedas
Death in the Andes by Mario Vargas Llosa
The Fox from Up Above and the Fox from Down Below by José Maria Arguedas
Torn From the Nest by Clorinda Matto de Turner
Three Halves of Ino Moxo : Teachings of the Wizard of the Upper Amazon by César Calvo
The Green House by Mario Vargas Llosa
The White Rock by Hugh Thomson
Yawar Fiesta by José Maria Arguedas
Broad and Alien Is the World by Ciro Alegria

FREE FOR AMAZON PRIME MEMBERS. The Surreal Killer, the third Roger Bowman-Suzanne Foster South American mystery novel in the series, is now available as a Kindle E-Book from Amazon (+Amazon UK and DE) for $2.99; the novel is free for Amazon Prime members at http://www.amazon.com/The-Surreal-Kil.... A serial killer is leaving a trail of dead women across Chile, Peru, and Bolivia. The gruesome corpses all seem to have died in exactly the same macabre way. There may be a link to a small group of scientists who meet annually in different locations in the region. Roger Bowman and Suzanne Foster are asked by the local police to attend this year’s meeting of the group in Lima, Peru to try to find out who was present at the previous meetings when the murders occurred. And the reader is off on a fast paced pursuit of the killer through Lima, Cuzco, and Machu Picchu in Peru and Chile’s Atacama Desert. This is a true whodunit mystery novel set in an unusual and exotic locale.

City of Silver: A Mystery by Annamaria Alfieri

Inca Land: Explorations in the Highlands of Peru by Hiram Bingham

Excavation by James Rollins

Go and Come Back by Joan Abelove

Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark

Isabella: A Wish for Miguel by Shirlee Newman

The Lost City of the Condor by Vickie Britton and Loretta Jackson

Set in modern tribal Peru

The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon by Robert Whitaker

Creating Our Own: Folklore, Performance, and Identity in Cuzco, Peru by Zoila S. Mendoza

Shaping Society through Dance: Mestizo Ritual Performance in the Peruvian Andes by Zoila S. Mendoza

Just started reading At Night We Walk in Circles which is set in an unspecified South American country that is very similar to Peru. The author was born there and grew up in the US. (I was too, and so far as I read, am definitely imagining Peru.)

Sendero by Max Tomlinson (1st Nina Flores Thriller)

Hope it's okay that I post my own book here, out June 3. It's set in Lima, Peru in 1992, about a man whose wife is kidnapped just as their marriage is falling apart. Chasing the Sun: A Novel

The Discreet Hero: A Novel by Mario Vargas Llosa

Cellophane by Marie Arana

The Neighborhood by Mario Vargas Llosa

Lessons for a Child Who Arrives Late by Carlos Yushimito

More books set in Peru:


Adventurous Tales of Machu Picchu by Ciro Alegría
Against Professional Secrets by César Vallejo
An Amazon and a Donkey by Natascha Scott-Stokes
Amazon Dream by Roberta Allen
American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood by Marie Arana
And Gold Was Ours by Rebecca Brandewyne (2nd book in Aguilar's Fate series)
Andean Lives by Ricardo Valderrama Fernández
The Antiquarian by Gustavo Faverón Patriau
Aphorisms by César Vallejo
At Night We Walk in Circles by Daniel Alarcón
At Play in the Fields of the Lord by Peter Matthiessen
Aunt Clementina by Julio Ramón Ribeyro
The Bedlam Stacks by Natasha Pulley
BEINGS Contemporary Peruvian Short Stories by Julio Ramón Ribeyro
Between the Lines: The Mystery of the Giant Ground Drawings of Ancient Nasca, Peru
Birds Without a Nest by Clorinda Matto de Turner
The Black Heralds by César Vallejo
A Blind Spot for Boys by Justina Chen
Blood of the Dawn by Claudia Salazar Jiménez
The Blue Hour by Alonso Cueto
The Boiling River by Andrés Ruzo
The Book of Human Skin by Michelle Lovric

More books set in Peru:


Cable, Vol. 1: The Shining Path by David Tischman
The Cardboard House by Martín Adán
The Charity Chip by Brock Booher
Chronicle of San Gabriel by Julio Ramón Ribeyro
City of Clowns by Daniel Alarcón
The Cloud Forest: A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness
A Cloud on Sand by Gabriella De Ferrari
Cocaine: White Gold Rush in Peru by Edmundo Morales
Complete Later Poems 1923-1938 by César Vallejo
The Complete Poetry by César Vallejo
The Complete Posthumous Poetry by César Vallejo
The Conquest of the Incas by John Hemming
The Country of the Blind by H.G. Wells
Cradle of Gold: The Story of Hiram Bingham, a Real-Life Indiana Jones, and the Search for Machu Picchu
Cut Stones and Crossroads: A Journey in the Two Worlds of Peru
Dark Jester by Wilson Harris
Death and Conversion in the Andes: Lima and Cuzco, 1532-1670 by Gabriela Ramos
The Dream of the Celt by Mario Vargas Llosa

The Water at the End of the World
A realistic reimagining of an Andean folktale, The Water at the End of the World follows a young woman’s journey through the Andes on her quest in search of the magical water that will cure the young heir to the throne of the Inca Empire.
Available on kindle unlimited, paperback, and hardcover.

This Country Is No Longer Yours

A Very Peruvian Practice: Travels with La Señora by John Lane.

The Shaman in Stilettos by Anna Hunt.

Inca Kola : A Traveller's Tale of Peru by Matthew Parris.

(both non-fiction)

You Shall Leave Your Land

Asiri and the Amaru - Cozy Fantasy Romance based on Peruvian Mythology by Natalia Hernandez

The Dust Never Settles