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Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza (Author),
Benjamin Moser (Translator)
A Rio de Janeiro Thriller
Chief of the Copacabana precinct Espinosa is more than happy to interrupt his paperwork when a terrified young man arrives at the station with a bizarre story. A psychic has predicted that he would commit a murder, it seems, and the prediction has become fact in the young man’s mind. As the weather changes and the southwesterly wind–always a sign of dramatic change–starts up, what at first seems like paranoia becomes brutal reality. Two violent murders occur, and their only link is the lonely, clever man who had sought Espinosa out a few days earlier for help.
In Southwesterly Wind, the third in this atmospheric, erotic series featuring the inimitable Inspector Espinosa, Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza once again breathes fresh air into the crime novel genre. (Los Angeles Times)
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.” —The New York Times Book Review
Chief of the Copacabana precinct Espinosa is more than happy to interrupt his paperwork when a terrified young man arrives at the station with a bizarre story. A psychic has predicted that he would commit a murder, it seems, and the prediction has become fact in the young man’s mind. As the weather changes and the southwesterly wind — always a sign of dramatic change — starts up, what at first seems like paranoia becomes brutal reality. Two violent murders occur, and their only link is the lonely, clever man who had sought Espinosa out a few days earlier for help.
In Southwesterly Wind, the third in this atmospheric, erotic series featuring the inimitable Inspector Espinosa, Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza once again “breathes fresh air into the crime novel genre.” (Los Angeles Times)
“Beautifully sad and seductive.”–Chicago Tribune
“Beguiling and ingenious.”–Kirkus Reviews
“One of the pleasures of reading Garcia-Roza derives from watching how he thwarts our narrative experiences. Throughout Southwesterly Wind, he shuffles and reshuffles a limited deck of secondary characters to assemble startling patterns. [A] wry and poetic voice.”
–Maureen Corrigan, Newsday
Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza is a bestselling novelist who lives in Rio de Janeiro.
Back Jacket
. —The New York Times Book Review
Chief of the Copacabana precinct Espinosa is more than happy to interrupt his paperwork when a terrified young man arrives at the station with a bizarre story. A psychic has predicted that he would commit a murder, it seems, and the prediction has become fact in the young man’s mind. As the weather changes and the southwesterly wind — always a sign of dramatic change — starts up, what at first seems like paranoia becomes brutal reality. Two violent murders occur, and their only link is the lonely, clever man who had sought Espinosa out a few days earlier for help. In Southwesterly Wind, the third in this atmospheric, erotic series featuring the inimitable Inspector Espinosa, Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza once again breathes fresh air into the crime novel genre. (Los Angeles Times) Beautifully sad and seductive.–Chicago Tribune
Beguiling and ingenious.–Kirkus Reviews
One of the pleasures of reading Garcia-Roza derives from watching how he thwarts our narrative experiences. Throughout Southwesterly Wind, he shuffles and reshuffles a limited deck of secondary characters to assemble startling patterns. [A] wry and poetic voice.
–Maureen Corrigan, Newsday Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza is a bestselling novelist who lives in Rio de Janeiro.
Author Biography
Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza is a bestselling novelist who lives in Rio de Janeiro.
Number of Pages: 256Dimensions: 0.61 x 8.59 x 5.49 INPublication Date: January 01, 2005
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