Please join us as Penny Manson interviews Capitol Crimes author Cindy Fazzi about her latest novel, MULTO.
Filipino-American bounty hunter Domingo has made a career of catching criminal undocumented immigrants. He’s the best in the business—and it isn’t lost on him that he’s so good because of his similarities to his targets. Despite Domingo’s claims that he is unsympathetic to their plight, he spends his spare moments on stakeouts and in between jobs writing a book of advice for aspiring immigrants. Brash, funny, and candid, he compiles the names of all the people he’s apprehended, documenting the hazards of his profession, and imparting advice to foreigners who dare to dream of life in America.
Domingo’s latest job is finding biracial Filipino woman Monica Reed—for the third time. Monica is the only fugitive who has ever escaped him, and the only one he’s ever released, against orders. As he embarks on a third and final hunt for her, Domingo uncovers a dangerous truth that Monica was determined to publicize—even though it put her life in danger. And as he chases her around the country, despite his agreement to arrest people like Monica, Domingo finds himself taking her side. Flushing out immigrants whose biggest crime was clinging to the American Dream pales in comparison to getting justice for a woman who he discovers was living in the shadows, but was only ever searching for the truth. Full of action and humor, MULTO is also a meditation on what it means to be unwelcome and unwanted in a country you love and the sacrifices such love requires.
Cindy Fazzi is a Filipino American writer and former Associated Press reporter. She’s the author of the Domingo the Bounty Hunter series, coming in 2025 from Thomas & Mercer. It includes the previously titled Multo, published by Agora Books in September 2023. Her historical novel, My MacArthur, was published by Sand Hill Review Press in 2018. Her short stories have been published in SN Review, Copperfield Review, Snake Nation Review, A Thin Slice of Anxiety, and TOUGH. Her articles have appeared in the Daily Beast, Electric Literature, Publishers Weekly, and Writer’s Digest. She has worked as a journalist in the Philippines, Taiwan, and the United States.
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