When two school members of the celebrated Flatbush Technical Excessive Faculty are murdered, shiny freshman Holly Hernández is straight away on the case, her newbie sleuthing expertise honed by her love for crime novels and the instance set by her murder detective mom. In the meantime, Xander Herrera is a socially awkward however equally astute pupil who finds himself considered the preliminary suspect; his dedication to show his innocence is almost as nice as his must beat the insufferably perky Holly to the punch and resolve the thriller first. What neither of them expects is to be embroiled in a deadly disco contest on the notorious Mission Venus nightclub in Manhattan. The novel alternates between Holly’s and Xander’s views because the hazard mounts and the 2 examine the case in parallel. This fast-paced, skillfully developed homicide thriller presents equal billing to each characters, their separate lives, and their particular person issues whereas additionally analyzing gender inequality and social injustice and offering an attention-grabbing have a look at the historical past of disco as a secure place for queer folks and other people of coloration. A part of the novel’s attraction is that Xander sees Holly as his nemesis whereas Holly is blissfully oblivious to the boy’s aggressive emotions. Holly, Xander, and their households are Latinx.
