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VELVET WAS THE NIGHT - SILVIA MORENO-GARCIA KAR...

GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK • 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. 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 • An adrenalized 
darkly romantic journey.”—The Washington Post 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. 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. 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. When Elvis is
assigned to find Leonora  he begins a blood-soaked search for the woman—and his soul. Swirling
in parallel trajectories  Maite and Elvis attempt to discover the truth behind Leonora’s
disappearance  encountering hitmen  government agents  and Russian spies. Because Mexico in the
1970s is a noir  where life is cheap and the price of truth is high.

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