Velvet Was the Night

✍ Scribed by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

• Book ID: 100456472
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 319 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780593356838

✦ Synopsis

From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic comes a " delicious, twisted treat for lovers of noir"* about a daydreaming secretary, a lonesome enforcer, and the mystery of a missing woman they 're both desperate to find.

*Simone St James,New York Times bestselling author of The Sun Down Motel
1970s, Mexico City. Maite is a secretary who lives for one thing: the latest issue of Secret Romance. While student protests and political unrest consume the city, Maite escapes into stories of passion and danger.
Her next-door neighbor, Leonora, a beautiful art student, seems to live a life of intrigue and romance that Maite envies. When 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.
Meanwhile, someone else is also looking for...