Velvet Was the Night

My first outing with this author and I'm happy I took the chance.

Maybe knowing 60's & 70's Latin American history, Mexican specifically, would add to your enjoyment of this but I think it's a perfectly good example of a modern noir. I'll be coming back to this well.

Maite and Elvis aren't heroic people in any sense of the word and yet are the only characters in this tale with any, albeit incidental, moral clarity. They're not overly ambitious or pretentious. They like music and want someone to know and know them. Simple. So hard.