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Every Bitter Thing, A Chief Inspector Mario Silva Investigation

A police detective finds a bizarre connection linking several murder victims in this “gripping” and gritty crime novel set in Brazil (Publishers Weekly).

The son of the foreign minister of Venezuela has been found dead in his apartment in Brasilia. Due to the political nature of the crime, Chief Inspector Mario Silva of Brazil’s federal police is called in to investigate.

As Silva delves deeper, he discovers that a chain of murders have occurred throughout Brazil, all with the same MO: victims are first shot in the stomach, then brutally beaten to death. One was a petroleum engineer, another a psychologist—but they have one puzzling thing in common: They were all passengers on TAB flight 8101 from Miami to São Paulo . . .

Leighton Gage

Leighton Gage (1942–2013) wrote six other books in the Chief Inspector Mario Silva series: Blood of the Wicked, Dying Gasp, Every Bitter Thing, A Vine in the Blood, Perfect Hatred, and The Ways of Evil Men. Since 1973, he spent part of each year in Santana do Parnaiba, Brazil, where he met his wife, Eide. His books have been translated into French, Italian, Finnish, and Dutch.

Soho Press