velvet was the night by silvia moreno garcia

Because Mexico in the 1970s is a noir, where life is cheap and the price of truth is high. She has also edited several anthologies, including the World Fantasy Awardwinning She Walks in Shadows (a.k.a. With Velvet Was the Night, Moreno-Garcia has written a note-perfect noir, complete with rainy nights and harsh shadows, crackly records and lingering cigarette smoke. Velvet was the Night is an explosive combination of such classic ’70s thrillers as Three Days of the Condor and contemporary Mexican noir like Yuri Herrera’s celebrated Signs Preceding the End of the World. Swirling in parallel trajectories, Maite and Elvis attempt to discover the truth behind Leonora’s disappearance, encountering hitmen, government agents, and Russian spies. Silvia Moreno-Garcia is the author of the novels Velvet Was the Night, Mexican Gothic, Gods of Jade and Shadow, and a bunch of other books. When Elvis is assigned to find Leonora, he begins a blood-soaked search for the woman-and his soul. Mexico in the 1970s is a politically fraught land, even for Elvis, a goon with a passion for rock ’n’ roll who knows more about kidney-smashing than intrigue. Del Rey, 27 (304p) ISBN 978-2-1 This seductive neo-noir thriller from bestseller Moreno-Garcia ( Mexican Gothic) draws on the. When her next-door neighbor, the beautiful art student Leonora, disappears under suspicious circumstances, Maite finds herself searching for the missing woman-and journeying deeper into Leonora’s secret life of student radicals and dissidents. Velvet Was the Night Silvia Moreno-Garcia. Mexico in the 1970s is a dangerous country, even for Maite, a secretary who spends her life seeking the romance found in cheap comic books and ignoring the activists protesting around the city.

“An adrenalized, darkly romantic journey.”- The Washington Post.

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, NPR, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, New York Public Library, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, BookPage, She Reads, Library Journal From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic comes a simmering historical noir about a daydreaming secretary, a lonesome enforcer, and the mystery of the missing woman they’re both desperate to find.

Velvet was the night by silvia moreno garcia