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Languishing in a self-imposed exile after her last novel received a scathing review, author Nurit Iscar (affectionately known as Betty Boo) reluctantly agrees to write feature pieces for her ex-lover's paper when a wealthy industrialist is discovered with his throat slit. Joined by a disgruntled ex-crime writer and fledging reporter from the same paper, she enters the world of an exclusive gated community where knuckle-dragging guards subject visitors and residents to ludicrous searches as they
I have to admit, I loved this book. Claudia Piñeiro does a wonderful job of describing life in Buenos Aires and its suburbs. She also has a gift for dialog that sounds so natural it as if you were listening to people talk at a table next to you in a cafe. As I read this book I felt like I was there with the main characters waiting on line to enter a gated community, talking to the taxi driver, reading the Sunday papers with my friends. The story is about a series of murder and considers who is t...
You know, I don't think I've ever read a bad Argentinian mystery; but this one is even better than some of the others I've read!
It took me a little while to get into this story, but once I did, I was hooked. I would definitely recommend it to anyone who enjoys a thoughtful mystery without a lot of gore, and great characters, with strong individual voices. Beyond the mystery-with-a-happy ending, however, is a commentary on politics in the aftermath of a dictatorship, corruption, and complicity. I enjoyed how Piñeiro characterized the tension between generations, in work, in families, and within cultural memory. I got chil...
Not too many pages into Betty Boo. a body is discovered, throat slit, in a luxury gated community cum country club. So far, so unexceptional; this is, after all, a crime novel. But Claudia Piñeiro’s Argentinian tale, translated by Miranda France, is a better-than-average example of the genre. One appealing aspect for me is that much of it is about journalists on a daily Buenos Aires newspaper, El Tribuno, struggling with the harsh changes being forced on their profession. Jaime Brena is the old-...
This book had come up a lot when I searched for best murder mysteries this summer. I had never read anything by Pineiro and was curious about the book. I was not a huge fan of her writing style. I found it irritating the way she always wrote out every character`s full name and I found that there was a lot of repetition, something I think would have been improved in the editing. That being said, it grabbed my attention and was easy to read. I found the plot fairly straight forward and I did not f...
A fantastic crime novel that follows a novelist (semi-retired after her last book bombed), a crime writing journalist (punished and moved off of his crime section), and the new wet-behind-the-ears crime journalist as they try to piece together a murder of a man three years after his wife was murdered--or do they still believe it was an accident?The characters were my favorite thing about this book, their interactions, the little bits of drama and humor, everything it said about gender roles, you...
