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Stories Set in Cancún — top stories

Cancún was purpose-built for tourism in the 1970s, a string of white-sand hotels conjured from empty coast. Spring break made it legend and punchline in equal measure, and its screen stories are mostly about visitors behaving badly. 40 Years Young is a fair sample. Open Cancún on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.

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10 famous stories set in Cancún

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Browse 9 books and 1 movie set in Cancún.

40 Years Young

40 Years Young

movie

After turning 40 César is invited to a culinary contest in Cancún but a bitter discovery threatens to destroy his family as well as his chances to win the competition.

Setting: Cancún, MexicoTime Period: 2022
The Atlantis Complex

The Atlantis Complex

by Eoin Colfer
book

ARTEMIS FOWL’S CRIMINAL WAYS HAVE FINALLY GOT THE BETTER OF HIM . . .Young Artemis has frequently used high-tech fairy magic to mastermind the most devious criminal activity of the new century. Now, at a conference in…

Setting: ['Cancún (Mexico)', 'Iceland']Time Period: 2010
A Shade of Vampire

A Shade of Vampire

by Bella Forrest (Goodreads Author)
book

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 13: 9781481280761.On the evening of Sofia Claremont's seventeenth birthday, she is sucked into a nightmare from which she cannot wake.A quiet evening walk along a beach brings her face to…

Setting: ['Cancún (Mexico)', 'The Shade']Time Period: 2012
Las dos muertes

Las dos muertes

by Jaime Alfonso Sandoval
book

Lina es una chica fea, bastante, y es nerd, por si fuera poco. Su vida no es fácil, pero se complicará cuando descubra que su padre es un vampiro, uno perseguido por una secta fundamentalista que jamás le perdonó…

Setting: Caracas, Venezuela; Oslo, Norway; Madrid, Spain; Cancún, Mexico; South of FranceTime Period: Unknown
A Shade of Blood

A Shade of Blood

by Bella Forrest (Goodreads Author)
book

Having been delighted by the bestselling debut, A Shade Of Vampire, readers are begging for more. In A Shade Of Blood, Bella Forrest transports you deeper into a unique, enthralling and beautifully sensitive story.…

Setting: ['Cancún (Mexico)', 'Los Angeles area, California (United States)', 'The Shade']Time Period: 1972
Just One Year

Just One Year

by Gayle Forman (Goodreads Author)
book

Just One Day. Just One Year. Just One Read.Before you find out how their story ends, remember how it began....When he opens his eyes, Willem doesn’t know where in the world he is—Prague or Dubrovnik or back in…

Setting: ['Paris (France)', 'Amsterdam (Netherlands)', 'Utrecht (Netherlands)', 'Deauville (France)', 'Cancún (Mexico)', 'Valladolid, Mexico', 'Mumbai (India)', 'Jaisalmer (India)', 'Merida (Mérida) (Mexico)']Time Period: 1971
The Ruins

The Ruins

by Scott Smith, Patrick Wilson (Narrator)
book

Trapped in the Mexican jungle, a group of friends stumble upon a creeping horror unlike anything they could ever imagine. Two young couples are on a lazy Mexican vacation–sun-drenched days, drunken nights, making…

Setting: ['Cancún (Mexico)', 'Mexico']Time Period: 2006
Caught Stealing

Caught Stealing

by Charlie Huston
book

It’s three thousand miles from the green fields of glory, where Henry “call me Hank” Thompson once played California baseball, to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where the tenements are old, the rents are high, and…

Setting: ['New York City, New York (United States)', 'Cancún (Mexico)']Time Period: 2000
The Death Relic

The Death Relic

by Chris Kuzneski (Goodreads Author)
book

The New World, 1545... Vanquished by the Spanish Empire, little remains of the Aztec and Mayan civilizations. From the ashes of their cities, a unified legend emerges: the Christians who conquered them possessed a…

Setting: ['Chichen Itza (Mexico)', 'Mexico City (México City) (Mexico)', 'Cancún (Mexico)']Time Period: 1545
La suerte de los irlandeses (edición revisada)

La suerte de los irlandeses (edición revisada)

by J.L. Rod
book

EDICIÓN REVISADA 01.09.2014 SINOPSIS ¿Qué serías capaz de hacer para salvar tu vida? Caracas, Oslo, Madrid, Cancún, Sur de Francia. Una historia contrarreloj. Pat MacMillan, agente de la División de Contrainteligencia…

Setting: Caracas, Venezuela; Oslo, Norway; Madrid, Spain; Cancún, Mexico; South of FranceTime Period: Unknown

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