Has anyone read Steven Torres? I just read The Concrete Maze,
and I really liked it. It's set in NYC and is about a
13-year-old Puerto Rican girl who hooks up with a really bad
guy, and her father & cousin try and get her back. It's
very dark, and I couldn't put it down.
The author describes it as both noir and hard-boiled, and I
think he's right. He even includes some "reading group
discussion questions" in the back of the book in which he
asks for comparisons to the classics in the genre.
I haven't read his other books so I don't know if these are
recurring characters or not, but I'm definitely going to look
for more of his books.
Cheers, Stacy
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