Irene Marcuse

Irene Marcuse was an American author of mystery novels. She was a finalist for the Agatha Award 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 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. 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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External links

Official web page

Obituary

20th-century births

2021 deaths

20th-century American novelists

21st-century American novelists

American mystery writers

American women novelists

American people of German-Jewish descent

Jewish American novelists

Women mystery writers

20th-century American women writers

21st-century American women writers

Columbia University School of Social Work alumni

21st-century American Jews

Year of birth missing