Irene Marcuse was an American author of
mystery novels. She was a finalist for the
Agatha Award
The Agatha Awards, named for Agatha Christie, are literary awards for mystery and crime writers who write in the traditional mystery subgenre: "books typified by the works of Agatha Christie . . . loosely defined as mysteries that contain no expli ...
in 2000. She died March 8, 2021.
Marcuse held a
BA in Literature and Creative Writing and a
Master of Social Work from
Columbia University. She was the granddaughter of social philosopher
Herbert Marcuse
Herbert Marcuse (; ; July 19, 1898 – July 29, 1979) was a German-American philosopher, social critic, and political theorist, associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory. Born in Berlin, Marcuse studied at the Humboldt University ...
and daughter of his only child
Peter Marcuse.
Books
Marcuse's Anita Servi series includes:
* ''The Death of an Amiable Child'' (2000)
* ''Guilty Mind'' (2001)
* ''Consider the Alternative'' (2002)
* ''Under the Manhattan Bridge'' (2004)
Her book ''Under the Manhattan Bridge'' is set in October 2001, in a city still coping with the impact of
9/11
The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated suicide terrorist attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. That morning, nineteen terrorists hijacked four commercial ...
. According to a review in ''The New York Times'' of post-9/11 mystery novels, it features "garbage trucks used as barricades and surreally polite New Yorkers."
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