![Ruben Castaneda](https://www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/assets/uploads/ruben.rcalley.jpg)
Ruben Castaneda is the author of S Street Rising: Crack, Murder and Redemption in D.C. For 22 years, he primarily covered crime and the criminal justice system for the Washington Post. Castaneda is a health writer at U.S. News and World Report.
2 entries by Ruben Castaneda
![The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth](https://www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/assets/uploads/leastofus.jpg)
The stories are grim, but there’s cause for optimism.
In Valhalla’s Shadows: A Novel
By W.D. Valgardson
![In Valhalla’s Shadows: A Novel](https://www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/assets/uploads/valhalla_1.jpg)
An atmospheric Canadian thriller that subtly comments on institutional abuses and racism.