A good read for grown-ups: venture into the streets of a small town where a patina of convention and good manners conceals a cauldron of avarice and lust.
Thanks to my hermana at Words and Wanderlust at Substack.com here is a little summer intrigue for you. Meet Ulises and Perla in 1940’s Mexico:
A handsome con artist, Ulises, has long charmed lonely women via letters in order to steal their money. But Perla is not the desperate, silly spinster Ulises imagines. Although Ulises does not believe in true romance, the challenge is more alluring than he bargained for. Suddenly, a simple plan becomes perilously complicated. Ulises knows his looks won’t last forever, and he’s desperate to get his hands on a real fortune.
“Writing with elegantly crafted prose to rival Raymond Chandler and James M. Cain’s discerning flair for morally complex characterization, Moreno-Garcia serves up her own seductive literary cocktail composed of equal measures of deception, danger, desire, and desperation…”
—Library Journal, starred review
Silvia Moreno-Garcia is the author of the novels The Bewitching, The Seventh Veil of Salome, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau, Mexican Gothic, and many other books. She has won the Locus and British Fantasy awards for her work as a novelist, and the World Fantasy Award as an editor.
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I love her books.
Thanks for the mention🥰. My order for The Intrigue should arrive in time for a weekend read!