Name: Betty boo
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Author: Claudia Piñeiro
ISBN: 9781908524553

Type

Physical Book

Author

Claudia Piñeiro

Translated by

Miranda France

Publisher

Bitter Lemon Press

Year

2016

Language

English

Pages

364

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781908524553

Synopsis "Betty boo "

“Not for nothing is Claudia Piñeiro Argentina’s most popular crime writer. Betty Boo is original, witty and hugely entertaining; it mixes murder with love, political power and journalism." Times-London"Those willing to take the time to enjoy the style and the unusual denouement will find themselves wondering why more crime authors don’t take the kinds of risks Piñeiro does." BooklistThe fourth novel from Claudia Piñeiro, South America's best-selling crime novelist.When a renowned Buenos Aires industrialist is found dead at his home in an exclusive gated community called La Maravillosa, the novelist Nurit Iscar (once nicknamed Betty Boo owing to a resemblance to the cartoon character Betty Boop) is contracted by a former lover, the editor of a national newspaper, to cover the story. Nurit teams up with the paper's veteran, but now demoted, crime reporter. Soon they realize that they are falling in love, which complicates matters deliciously.The murder is no random crime but one in a series that goes to the heart of the establishment. Five members of the Argentine industrial and political elite, who all went to the same boarding-school, have died in apparently innocent circumstances. The Maravillosa murder is just the last in the series and those in power in Argentina are not about to allow all this brought to light. Too much is at stake.

Claudia Piñeiro

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Claudia Piñeiro was born in Greater Buenos Aires in 1960. She is a writer, playwright, TV scriptwriter, and contributor to various print media. She has published the novels Las viudas de los jueves, Tuya, Elena sabe, Las grietas de Jara, Betibú, Un comunista en calzoncillos, Una suerte pequeña, Las maldiciones, Catedrales, and El tiempo de las moscas. In 2018, Alfaguara published her collected stories in Quién no, and in 2021, in Argentina, a volume with her plays, Cuánto vale una heladera y otros textos de teatro

For her literary, theatrical, and journalistic work, she has received various national and international awards, including the Premio Clarín de Novela, the LiBeraturpreis Award, the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Award, the Rosalía de Castro Award from the PEN (Club of Poets, Essayists, and Narrators of Galicia), the Pepe Carvalho Award from the Barcelona Negra Festival, the Dashiell Hammett Award from the Semana Negra de Gijón, the Negra y Criminal Award from the Tenerife Noir Festival, the Best Novel Award from the Valencia Negra Festival, and was a finalist for the International Booker Prize 2022 with the English translation of Elena sabe

As a co-author, along with Marcelo Piñeiro, of the TV series El reino, she won the Platino Award for best series creators. Several of her novels have been adapted into films. She is one of the most translated Argentine writers into other languages, making her books read and enjoyed by thousands of readers around the world

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