Irene Marcuse

American author of mystery novels

Irene Marcuse
Occupation	Author
Nationality	American
Education	Columbia University (BA, MSW)
Genre	Mystery fiction
Parent	Peter Marcuse (father)
Relatives	Herbert Marcuse (grandfather)
Website
www.marcuse.org/irene/

Irene Marcuse was an American author of mystery novels. She was a finalist for the Agatha Award in 2000. She died March 8, 2021.^[1]^[2]

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."^[3]

Notes

^ Silver, Tabitha. "Irene "Beetsie" Elizabeth Marcuse Silver". LifePost.com. Retrieved March 14, 2022.
^ "Shelf Awareness for Thursday, March 11, 2021". Self Awareness.com. March 11, 2022. Retrieved March 14, 2022.
^ Pall, Ellen (February 9, 2003). "Whodunit? Suddenly Nobody Cared". The New York Times. Retrieved September 2, 2013.