Velvet Was the Night : Arcadia Books : 9781529417982 : 1529417988 : 03 May 2022 : Chosen by President Obama for his Summer 2022 Reading List: From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic comes a 'delicious, twisted treat for lovers of noir' (Simone St. James) about a daydreaming secretary, a lonesome enforcer, and the mystery of a missing woman they're both desperate to find. 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. 'An amazing writer' S.A. Cosby, bestselling author of Blacktop Wasteland and Razorblade Tears Mexico in the 1970s is a politically fraught land, even for Elvis, a g