Inspector Espinosa Mysteries The Silence of the Rain, Book 1, (Paperback)

from Gary10

Murder mysteryset in Rio de Janeiro--translated from Portuguese. Interesting, surprising, well written.

from shawnd

What starts as a workmanlike mystery novel quickly becomes a haunting account centered around Detective Espinosa, a bookish, uncorrupted police veteran. The deceased becomes so in an enigmatic event and the story quickly entwines his secretary Rose, his elegant wife Bia, his somewhat mysterious b...

from kerns222

One flatly written book: Naming places, floating past them, bodies dropping, no affect. Step by step it proceeds. And then it ends. Bam.

from smik

In a parking garage in the center of Rio de Janeiro, corporate executive Ricardo Carvalho is found dead in his car, a bullet in his head, his wallet and briefcase missing. Inspector Espinosa is called in to investigate the apparent robbery and murder, but the world-weary Espinosa knows that thing...

from fordbarbara

melancholic but good stories, good characters, don't make Rio seem so awful