Mysteries to Die For Book Club: "Blood of the Wicked" by Leighton Gage
About this Event
The Mysteries to Die For Book Club is led by Elsie Souza, reading M**der, mayhem, and marvelous prose. From Nordic noir to British whodunits, each book reveals how crime and storytelling cross borders, and what our favorite detectives can teach us about culture, justice, and the human heart.
This month, we're reading Leighton Gage's Blood of the Wicked—a fast-moving crime novel that begins with the assassination of a Catholic bishop in a Brazilian town already simmering with conflict. Chief Inspector Mario Silva of Brazil's federal police is sent to investigate, but the M**der quickly proves to be only one piece of a much larger and more dangerous story. His search for the killer draws him into a world of land disputes, political corruption, poverty, powerful families, and violence against the rural poor, where nearly everyone has something to protect and justice depends heavily on who is asking for it. The first book in Gage's Chief Inspector Mario Silva series, Blood of the Wicked uses the machinery of a police procedural to explore the enormous divides of contemporary Brazil. Dark, propulsive, and unafraid of moral complexity, it's a mystery where finding out who pulled the trigger is only the beginning.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
The first book in Leighton Gage’s critically acclaimed police procedural series set in Brazil, now available in paperback at the special introductory price of $9.99
Chief Inspector Mario Silva of Brazil’s Federal Police is a good cop in a bad system—Brazil’s justice system is rife with corruption, and constantly a beat behind criminal elements. But Silva and his team of colorful sidekicks—baby-faced Gonçalves, who is irresistible to lady witnesses; chubby, crass Nuñes; Mara Carta, the chief of intelligence with a soft spot for Mario—crack their difficult and sometimes ugly cases with pizazz.
In the interior of Brazil, landless workers battle the owners of vast fazendas. When a visiting archbishop is assassinated, Mario Silva is called upon to investigate. Then a newspaper owner, a TV journalist, a landowner’s son, and a priest are brutally killed. In a country where dead street kids are known as “hams,” justice is scarce.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Leighton Gage wrote the Chief Inspector Mario Silva series, crime novels set in Brazil. His work has been praised by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, the Toronto Globe and Mail, Booklist, Library Journal, Kirkus and a variety of other publications as well as by numerous online reviewers, including the prestigious New York Journal of Books.
Where is it happening?
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USD 12.28
