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Köp båda 2 för 353 krVelvet Was the Night cements Silvia Moreno-Garcia's incredible versatility as an amazing writer who moves between genres effortlessly. A lush, magnificent trip into a world of danger and discovery. Not to be missed! * S.A. COSBY, Anthony Award-winning author of BLACKTOP WASTELAND and RAZORBLADE TEARS, on VELVET WAS THE NIGHT * Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Velvet Was The Night is a treat to be savoured, a dizzying combination of American and Mexican Noir written in the most individual of voices. * BARRY FORSHAW, Financial Times, on VELVET WAS THE NIGHT * Velvet Was the Night is a rollicking work of historical noir with a vivid sense of time and place and an unforgettable cast. Moreno-Garcia made me care deeply about her characters and their dangerous, riveting misadventures. This is a stylish, hard-boiled novel painted in shades of grey with a whole lot of heart. * STEPH CHA, author of YOUR HOUSE WILL PAY, on VELVET WAS THE NIGHT * Silvia Moreno-Garcia takes you into the gritty underworld noir of 1970s Mexico City with a propulsive read where no one and nothing is as it seems. * ISABELLA MALDONADO, bestselling author of THE CIPHER, on VELVET WAS THE NIGHT * Velvet Was the Night is a delicious, twisted treat for lovers of noir. Silvia Moreno-Garcia is a who pulls you into her dark world and never lets you go. From the suspenseful, slow-burn plot to the crisp, desperate characters, you will be obsessed. * SIMONE ST. JAMES, New York Times-bestselling author of THE SUN DOWN MOTEL, on VELVET WAS THE NIGHT * Moreno-Garcia keeps the suspense high and the action intense, all while sharing a bit of 1970s Mexican history in this perfectly pitched novel. Fans of Moreno-Garcia's other novels will relish this title, as will noir aficionados and readers who like stories about everymen - and women - rising to the occasion * LIBRARY JOURNAL (Starred Review) on VELVET WAS THE NIGHT * Moreno-Garcia, the author of acclaimed and bestselling speculative novels, including Mexican Gothic (2020), returns to noir crime fiction with a winner that brings together a romance-fiction obsessed secretary and a lovelorn enforcer during the brutally suppressed student riots in 1970s Mexico City. Their stories of danger and passion run side by side in an enveloping narrative that is at once dark and bright. Despite their failings, readers will be rooting for them and hoping they find some happiness, and, maybe, even, each other. * BOOKLIST (Starred Review) on VELVET WAS THE NIGHT * It's hard to describe how much fun this novel is - Moreno-Garcia, whose Mexican Gothic (2020) gripped readers last year, proves to be just as good at noir as she is at horror. The novel features memorable characters, taut pacing, an intricate plot, and antiheroes you can't help but root for. A noir masterpiece. * KIRKUS (Starred Review), on VELVET WAS THE NIGHT * A rich novel with an engrossing plot, distinctive characters, and a pleasing touch of romance. Readers won't be able to put it down. * PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, (Starred Review), on VELVET WAS THE NIGHT * A chameleon writer with incredible writing skills * KIRKUS * A genre-jumping wizard, one of the most exciting and necessary authors writing today * CHARLIE JANE ANDERS, award-winning author of The City in the Middle of the Night * You'll be pulled into the tale with spies, romance, danger and rock 'n' roll * NEWSWEEK MAGAZINE * Sexy and simmering * E! ONLINE * Pacy enough to keep you hooked - as it reaches its climax, so will your heart rate * Cosmopolitan * A page-turning read full of colour and action * THE INDEPENDENT * Within this rich world and character is a tense thriller that builds as the book reaches its climax... touches of John Le Carre espionage * SFBOOK REVIEWS * An evocative historical crime noir that quietly simmers with underlying danger and suspense * CULTUREFLY * An enthralling tale that's as fun as it is mysterious... The characters are fascinating, the tone lush and
Silvia Moreno-Garcia is the multi-award-winning author of Mexican Gothic (a New York Times bestseller), Gods of Jade and Shadow (one of Time magazine's top 100 fantasy novels of all time), The Beautiful Ones, Certain Dark Things, the noir thrillers Untamed Shore and Velvet was the Night, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau, Silver Nitrate and the forthcoming The Seventh Veil of Salome. She has won the Locus and British Fantasy awards for her work as a novelist, and the World Fantasy Award as an editor. Born and brought up in Mexico, she now lives in Vancouver, Canada.