Patricia Melo

• Feb-1999
• / General Fiction
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"Melo's prize-winning novel (Matador) is a thriller about a man who accidentally becomes a hired killer and a local hero. Once again Landers achieves an excellent result: colloquial, entirely readable, and authentic, with just the right tone for its ...

• Apr-2000
• / General Fiction
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Jose Guber is in love with a deadly woman - Melissa, expert on poisonous snakes, which is what Jose wants to work into his latest crime novel. Jose unashamedly plagiarises his plots from the classics. Then Melissa makes it clear she would like to ada...

• Aug-2003
• / General Fiction
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For eleven-year-old Kingie, there are lessons to be learned from drug trafficking. His first job is as a lookout, working on the hillside slums of Rio de Janerio. But as he grows older he realises that in order to survive you must also keep a close w...

• Sep-2004
• / General Fiction
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The successful and renowned conductor of a major symphony orchestra in Sao Paulo, he is married to a beautiful and talented violinist, close to thirty years his junior. But his happiness is undermined by two fears: that he will never wholly share her...

• Mar-2013
• / Thriller
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• Aug-2015
• / Mystery
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Praise for The Body Snatcher:"An excellent and atypical book, a fantastic adventure." -- The Huffington Post"An explosive mixture of dread, greed and corruption. You won't put it down until you've read the very last page." -- Cosmopolitan This tightl...

• Oct-2023
• / Literary
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From best-selling Brazilian novelist Patrícia Melo comes a genre-defying tale of women in the Amazon and their reckoning with brutal oppression—by turns poetic, humorous, dark, and inspiring.The Simple Art of Killing a Woman vividly conjur...