Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza

An Inspector Espinoza Mystery

1 - The Silence of the Rain (Jul-2002)
2 - December Heat (Jun-2003)
3 - Southwesterly Wind (Mar-2004)
4 - A Window in Copacabana (Jan-2005)
5 - Pursuit (Feb-2006)
6 - Blackout (Aug-2008)
7 - Alone in the Crowd (Jul-2009)

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  The Silence of the Rain
  

  • Jul-2002
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  An Inspector Espinoza Mystery - 1
  

  “Readers will find much to marvel over” in this psychological thriller, a bestseller in Brazil that “breathes fresh air into the crime novel genre” (Los Angeles Times).In a parking garage in the center of Rio de Janeiro, corporate executive R...

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  December Heat
  

  • Jun-2003
  • / Police Procedural
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  An Inspector Espinoza Mystery - 2
  

  The second in the acclaimed Brazilian series featuring Inspector Espinosa, the detective hailed by critics for "his existential sensibility, his exotic beat, and his literary merit" (San Francisco Chronicle)A retired policeman spends a typically alco...

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  Southwesterly Wind
  

  • Mar-2004
  • / Police Procedural
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  An Inspector Espinoza Mystery - 3
  

  A young man predicts a murder and identifies the perpetrator -- himself -- in this third entry in the critically acclaimed Brazilian crime seriesWhen a terrified young man arrives at the station with a bizarre story, Chief Espinosa of the Copacabana ...

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  A Window in Copacabana
  

  • Jan-2005
  • / Police Procedural
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  An Inspector Espinoza Mystery - 4
  

  A ruthless group of corrupt cops is playing a lethal game of cat and mouse in the latest installment in the seductive bestselling Brazilian crime seriesCopacabana, Rio de Janeiro. Three policemen have been killed over the course of a few days. They w...

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  Pursuit
  

  • Feb-2006
  • / Police Procedural
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  An Inspector Espinoza Mystery - 5
  

  A Rio de Janeiro ThrillerWhen his daughter disappears and a patient emerges as the prime suspect, a troubled psychiatrist comes to Espinosa for help, in the fifth novel in the beguiling Brazilian crime series A hospital psychiatrist feels he's be...

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  Blackout
  

  • Aug-2008
  • / Police Procedural
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  An Inspector Espinoza Mystery - 6
  

  With no witnesses and no weapon, it seems like the case of the one-legged homeless man found lying in a cul-de-sac on S�o Jo�o Hill, shot through the heart, will remain unsolved. But Chief Inspector Espinosa can't shake thoughts of the hapless victim...

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  Alone in the Crowd
  

  • Jul-2009
  • / Police Procedural
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  An Inspector Espinoza Mystery - 7
  

  Inspector Espinosa unwittingly ignites the obsessions of a menacing misanthrope in the latest from the highly acclaimed mystery author An elderly lady approaches the front desk at the Twelfth Precinct in Copacabana and demands to speak with the chief...

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