Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s latest offering Velvet Was the Night is a New York Times Editor’s Choice set in 1970s Mexico City. The novel follows Maite, a secretary with a penchant for reading romance stories whose life is rocked when her mysterious art student neighbor Leonora goes missing. As Maite begins searching for Leonora, she uncovers a secret life, without realizing she herself is being watched.

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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