Tuesday Book Club: ‘Velvet Was the Night’ by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Tuesday, August 19, 2025
10:00 am - 11:15 am

At the Tuesday Book Club, we discuss a wide variety of genres with a focus on popular fiction and nonfiction. Join us at 10-11:15 am on the third Tuesday of every month!

Velvet Was the Night

1970s Mexico is a dangerous country, even for Maite: a secretary who spends her life seeking romance found in cheap comic books while ignoring the activists who protest around the city. When her next-door neighbor, Leonora, a beautiful art student, disappears under suspicious circumstances, Maite finds herself searching for the missing woman. She journeys deeper into Leonora’s secret life of being a dissident and radical student.

1970s Mexico 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 while encountering hitmen, government agents and Russian spies. Because Mexico in the 1970s is a noir: life is cheap, and the price of truth is high.

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