3.5
The Silence of the Rain
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In a parking garage in the center of Rio de Janeiro, corporate executive Ricardo Carvalho is found dead in his car. It appears that he has been robbed and murdered. But the clues are few. Just the kind of case that is always assigned to Inspector Espinosa. Not your typical detective, the world-weary Espinosa has the mind of a philosopher, the heart of a romantic, and enough experience to realize that things are rarely as they first seem.
As Espinosa attempts to unravel the mystery of what really happened to Carvalho and his secretary, Rose, who disappeared shortly afterward, he discovers that the businessman had recently taken out a million-dollar life insurance policy. And there's another complication: Espinosa's attraction to Carvalho's beautiful widow, who is also one of the prime suspects. When two more bodies turn up, Espinosa is forced to shift the investigation into high gear before anyone becomes a casualty.
Hurtling to a surprising conclusion,
is an intelligent, unconventional detective novel with a distinctly Latin American flavor and a colorful locale. In Espinosa, America is about to meet an irresistible new sleuth.
"The sultry Rio setting . . . and a most unorthodox detective should appeal to police procedural fans with a taste for the offbeat." —
"Garcia-Roza's Hitchcockian trick of knowing exactly how much to reveal to keep his audience off-balance keeps this melancholic debut simmering." —
"Effortlessly . . . displays the mystery novel as a richly expressive medium for ideas." —
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3.5
“I finished this book yesterday. I was all geared up to really love it. Five sparkling stars love it. However, a gratuitous sex scene near the end of the book that had absolutely nothing to do with the plot bumped it down to 4* The participants were two strangers. I didn't get why it was thrown in.”
“I'm blown away by that ending! Both disgusted but yet admiring of such courage... I don't think I could. We are told by the description what happened at the beginning, a suicide, which was complicated when no weapon nor letter was found. As the police hunted for a murderer, others were conspiring for something else. The ultimate motive, of course, was money. Or was it? The ending while conclusive on one point was also openly inconclusive on another.
The character of Inspector Delegado Espinosa would appeal to all readers all over the world:
1. he always visits a bookstore just because he's in the area -there was one point that he resisted but he already made a note to visit another time
2. spends his weekend rearranging his book stacks
3. his penchant for Dickens
4. a daydreamer
5. luuuurrrrvveesss coffee
I may have just described myself...
I love his philosophy on tidying up too -"The books piled up against the wall bore witness to my efforts to cooperate with the cleaning lady. There was probably some charm in the mess of the apartment: the disorder did not simply reflect the lack of order; it distorted normal ideas of order."
While the novel is of police-procedural persuasion, I feel it tends to the noir side of things with corruption being rife in the precinct, the twists and turns of the plot, the beautiful but deadly women, and of course, that ending. Highly recommended for Dashiell Hammett's fans or any crime noir readers.”
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