Popular South American Crime Books
Find crime books written by authors from South America for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (24)
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Jantar secreto by Raphael Montes PT
Country: South America / 
Brazil
Brazil
Description:
Um grupo de jovens deixa uma pequena cidade no Paraná para viver no Rio de Janeiro. Eles alugam um apartamento em Copacabana e fazem o possível para pagar a faculdade e manter vivos seus sonhos de sucesso na capital fluminense. Mas o dinheiro está curto e o aluguel está vencido. Para sair do buraco e manter o apartamento, os amigos adotam uma estratégia heterodoxa: arrecadar fundos por meio de jantares secretos, divulgados pela internet para uma clientela exclusiva da elite carioca. No cardápio: carne humana. A partir daí, eles se envolvem numa ... continue
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La pregunta de sus ojos by Eduardo Alfredo Sacheri ES
Country: South America / 
Argentina
Argentina
Description:
Benjamín Chaparro es un funcionario judicial que todavía sigue obsesionado por la brutal, décadas de antigüedad violación y asesinato de una joven casada en su propio dormitorio. Mientras intenta escribir un libro sobre el caso, él revisita los detalles de la investigación. Cuando busca en el pasado, Chaparro también recuerda el principio de su largo, y no correspondido amor por Irene Hornos, por aquel entonces solamente una pasante, ahora una respetable juez.
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Mentes Perigosas by Ana Beatriz Barbosa Silva PT
Country: South America / Brazil
Brazil
Description:
EDIÇÃO COMEMORATIVA DE 10º ANIVERSÁRIO COM DOIS CAPÍTULOS INÉDITOS Eles podem ter várias faces. Disfarçados de pessoas de bem, autora de mentes ansiosas ocultam o que realmente são: seres calculistas, manipuladores e insensíveis aos sentimentos alheios. Estão ao nosso lado no trabalho, na escola, na vizinhança e no círculo familiar e, a qualquer momento, podem gerar destruição em nossa vida. Eles são os psicopatas, uma ameaça real e silenciosa para toda a sociedade. Psicopatas não sentem culpa nem compaixão. Não se arrependem. Não nutrem nenhum senso de empatia ou responsabilidade em relação a... continue
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O Mistério do 5 Estrelas by Marcos Rey PT
Country: South America / Brazil
Brazil
Description:
O que você faria se visse um cadáver embaixo de uma cama? Léo, mensageiro do Emperor Park Hotel, um cinco estrelas que hospeda muita gente poderosa,viu um no quarto 222. Leo desceu para o saguão desejando que ninguém o chamasse. Precisava contar ao Guima o que vira no 222. Ao abrir a boca e começar a investigar, passou a viver dias cheios de suspense e surpresas. Teve de vencer a paralisia do pesadelo para erguer os lençóis sobre o carrinho. Logo encontrou alguma resistência e viu uma mancha de sangue. Como um boneco de cera, as pernas dobradas, Leo viu o cadáver, o mesmo homem de cara de índi... continue
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Poso Wells by Gabriela Alemán EN
Country: South America / Brazil
Brazil
Description:
Celebrated Ecuadorian author Gabriela Alemán's first work to appear in English: a noir, feminist eco-thriller in which venally corrupt politicians and greedy land speculators finally get their just comeuppance! "In the squalid settlement of Poso Wells, women have been regularly disappearing, but the authorities have shown little interest. When the leading presidential candidate comes to town, he and his entourage are electrocuted in a macabre accident witnessed by a throng of astonished spectators. The sole survivor—next in line for the presidency—inexplicably disappears from sight. Gustavo Va... continue
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Country: South America / Brazil
Brazil
Description:
With Rio Noir, the Akashic Noir Series delves for the first time into South America.
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The Fragility of Bodies by Sergio Olguin EN
Country: South America / Argentina
Argentina
Description:
When she hears about the suicide of a Buenos Aires train driver who has left a note confessing to four mortal 'accidents' on the train tracks, journalist Veronica Rosenthal decides to investigate. For the police the case is closed (suicide is suicide), for Veronica it is the beginning of a journey that takes her into an unfamiliar world of grinding poverty, crime-infested neighborhoods, and train drivers on commuter lines haunted by the memory of bodies hit at speed by their locomotives in the middle of the night. Aided by a train driver with whom she has a tumultuous and reckless affair, a ju... continue
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The Name of Death by Klester Cavalcanti EN
Country: South America / Brazil
Brazil
Description:
The powerful true-life story of a Brazilian boy who could have been a fisherman but instead became the biggest professional killer known to the world--soon to be a major motion picture. Julio Santana as seen through the eyes of acclaimed investigative reporter Klester Cavalcanti is not a monster--he is a loyal son, a family man, a devout Christian who is tormented by his conscience with every shot. But in a cruel and lawless area of Brazil, where every life has its price, respect for life is a luxury that he can't afford. Trained by his uncle, an assassin, and initiated in murder at 17 years o... continue
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The Simple Art of Killing a Woman by Patricia Melo EN
Country: South America / Brazil
Brazil
Description:
To escape an overprotective family and an abusive partner, a young lawyer accepts an assignment in the Amazonian border town of Cruzeiro do Sul. There, she meets Carla, a local prosecutor, and Marcos, the son of an indigenous woman, and learns about an epidemic of violence against women that seems beyond comprehension. What she finds in the jungle is not only relentless oppression, but a deep longing for answers to an unsolved crime from her past. Through the ritual use of ayahuasca, she meets a chorus of warrior women on a path of revenge and recovers the painful details of her mother's death... continue