October 2020 Book of the Month
Mexican Gothic
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Published by: Del Rey
ISBN-13: 978-0525620785
SYNOPSIS:
A glamorous debutante, Noemí Taboada is more suited to commanding the room at cocktail parties and fending off lovesick suitors than she is to undertaking amateur rescue missions. But after receiving a frantic, disturbing letter from her newlywed cousin, Catalina, Noemí decides that’s exactly what she will do.
When she arrives at High Place, the misty, sprawling estate where Catalina should be living out her dreams of marital bliss, Noemí is unnerved to find her cousin locked in a frightening nightmare that only she can see. As Noemi soon discovers, secrets can be taken to the grave, but they have a way of haunting the living. And all is not as it seems at High Place.
But Noemí is tough and smart, with an indomitable will, and she is not afraid: not of her cousin’s new husband, who is both menacing and alluring; not of his father, the ancient patriarch who seems to be fascinated by Noemí; and not even of the house itself, which begins to invade her dreams with visions of blood and doom.
As Noemí untangles truth from lie, she discovers that no one—and nothing—is what it seems. And some people will kill to keep their secrets as quiet as the dead.
BIO:
Mexican by birth, Canadian by inclination. Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s debut novel, Signal to Noise, about music and magic, won a Copper Cylinder Award. Her second novel, Certain Dark Things, focused on narco vampires in Mexico City. It was one of NPR’s best books of 2016.
Gods of Jade and Shadow was the 2020 American Library Association Reading List winner in the Fantasy category and won the 2020 Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic.
She has edited several anthologies, including She Walks in Shadows (World Fantasy Award winner, published in the USA as Cthulhu’s Daughters), Fungi, Dead North and others. Silvia is the publisher of Innsmouth Free Press. She co-edited the horror magazine The Dark with Sean Wallace from 2017 to 2020. She’s a columnist for The Washington Post and reviews books for NPR.
Author webpage: https://www.silviamoreno-garcia.com/blog/
Twitter: (author): @silviamg
Twitter (publisher): @delreybooks @randomhouse
