Secret Identity: A Novel
Written by Alex Segura
Narrated by Aida Reluzco
4/5
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This program features original sound design.
From Anthony Award-winning writer Alex Segura comes Secret Identity, a rollicking literary mystery set in the world of comic books.
It’s 1975 and the comic book industry is struggling, but Carmen Valdez doesn’t care. She’s an assistant at Triumph Comics, which doesn’t have the creative zeal of Marvel nor the buttoned-up efficiency of DC, but it doesn’t matter. Carmen is tantalizingly close to fulfilling her dream of writing a superhero book.
That dream is nearly a reality when one of the Triumph writers enlists her help to create a new character, which they call “The Lethal Lynx,” Triumph's first female hero. But her colleague is acting strangely and asking to keep her involvement a secret. And then he’s found dead, with all of their scripts turned into the publisher without her name. Carmen is desperate to piece together what happened to him, to hang on to her piece of the Lynx, which turns out to be a runaway hit. But that’s complicated by a surprise visitor from her home in Miami, a tenacious cop who is piecing everything together too quickly for Carmen, and the tangled web of secrets and resentments among the passionate eccentrics who write comics for a living.
Alex Segura uses his expertise as a comics creator as well as his unabashed love of noir fiction to create a truly one-of-a-kind novel--hard-edged and bright-eyed, gritty and dangerous, and utterly absorbing.
Editor's Note
Calling all comics fans…
Obsessed with comic books since she was a young girl, Carmen Valdez’s new job at Triumph Comics is a dream come true, even if she’s just a lowly assistant. But when an editor approaches Carmen to ghostwrite a new superhero, it becomes a hit, and the editor dies under mysterious circumstances — and before publicly acknowledging Carmen’s role in Triumph’s new “it” character — her dream job soon becomes much more than she bargained for. This noir murder mystery slash coming-of-age story’s slow burn is a fun ride for all readers, especially comic book fans.
Alex Segura
Alex Segura is the bestselling and award-winning author of Secret Identity, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller and a New York Times Editor’s Choice and an NPR Best Mystery of the Year. He's also the author of the Pete Fernandez series, as well as the Star Wars novel, Poe Dameron: Free Fall, and a Spider-Verse adventure called Araña/Spider-Man 2099: Dark Tomorrow. He lives in New York City with his family.
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Reviews for Secret Identity
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5While I could not finish “The Verifiers” I did finish this and I thought there were interesting similarities. What made this better was not over explaining the comic book industry like the way the dating industry is handled in “Verifiers”….
To me the best part of this audiobook are the short excepts from the comic she has created. And the narration was fantastic. I really enjoyed parts of this book but other points I did think it should speed up the pace.