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.^[1][2]

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/

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]