{"product_id":"velvet-was-the-night","title":"Velvet was the Night","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"164\" data-end=\"625\"\u003eMexico City in the 1970s is a dangerous place. Maite, a lonely secretary, prefers escaping into the romance of cheap comic books, turning a blind eye to the student protests and political unrest surrounding her. But when her glamorous next-door neighbor, Leonora—a beautiful art student—vanishes under suspicious circumstances, Maite is drawn into a search that pulls her far beyond her quiet routines and into Leonora’s hidden world of radicals and dissidents.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"627\" data-end=\"934\"\u003eIt is an equally treacherous time for Elvis, a hard-hitting enforcer with a love for rock ’n’ roll and little patience for politics. Assigned to track down Leonora, Elvis embarks on a brutal, blood-soaked hunt that forces him to confront not only the city’s corruption, but his own fading sense of humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"936\" data-end=\"1247\"\u003eAs their paths spiral closer, Maite and Elvis race through a shadowy Mexico of hitmen, government agents, and foreign spies, each desperate to uncover the truth behind Leonora’s disappearance. In a country where life is cheap and secrets are deadly, the cost of truth may be more than either of them can afford.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1249\" data-end=\"1452\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003eFrom the \u003cem data-start=\"1258\" data-end=\"1274\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author of \u003cem data-start=\"1297\" data-end=\"1313\"\u003eMexican Gothic\u003c\/em\u003e comes a simmering historical noir—an unforgettable tale of obsession, violence, and survival in a city where danger lurks in every shadow.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Silvia Moreno-Garcia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43347120193742,"sku":null,"price":22.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0658\/1423\/3294\/files\/Velvetwasthenight.jpg?v=1769043194","url":"https:\/\/itsalovestorybookshop.com\/products\/velvet-was-the-night","provider":"It's A Love Story Book Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}