Betty Boo
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When a Buenos Aires industrialist is found dead at his home in Marivillosa, the novelist Nurit Iscar (nicknamed Betty Boo due to her apparent similarities to cartoon ingenue Betty Boop) is contracted to cover the story. Soon Nurit realises that she is falling in love with the man she has teamed up with to investigate the murder, which complicates matters deliciously. The murder is clearly no random crime. Five members of the Argentine industrial elite, who all went to the same boarding-school, have died. Not everyone, though, is keen on this link coming to light.
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This was my choice for “a book set in Central or South America, written by a Central or South American author,” and it was a great one. I pretty much loved everything about it: the intelligence, the realistically adult women, the literary references, the plot.
I now have only one category left in order to finish the 2017 Book Riot Read Harder Challenge: Read a book that is set more than 5000 miles from your location. I've started The Master and Margarita, which, from what I can tell so far, takes place in Moscow, Jerusalem, and HELL. Should fit.
(Also, why doesn't the “insert book/author” option here work for me anymore?)
