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Brazilian Psycho

Brazilian Psycho
  • Author(s): Joe Thomas
  • Location(s): Sao Paulo
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Earlier 20th Century

(The São Paulo Quartet): 4 Over sixteen years, a diverse cast of characters live through the unfolding social and political drama, setting in motion a whirlwind of plots and counterplots: the murder of a British school headmaster and the...

It Is Wood, It Is Stone

It Is Wood, It Is Stone
  • Author(s): Gabriella Burnham
  • Location(s): Sao Paulo
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

With sharp, gorgeous prose, It Is Wood, It Is Stone takes place over the course of a year in São Paulo, Brazil, in which two women’s lives intersect. Linda, an anxious and restless American, has moved with her husband,...

Playboy

Playboy
  • Author(s): Joe Thomas
  • Location(s): Sao Paulo
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 2016

SÃO PAULO, 20 MARCH 2016 A campaign for the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff is in full swing, yet 100,000 people take to Avenida Paulista in São Paulo in her support. On the same day, a young man from...

Gringa

Gringa
  • Author(s): Joe Thomas
  • Location(s): Sao Paulo
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 2013

São Paulo, 2013: a city at an extraordinary moment in its history. Mario Leme, a detective in the civil police, has developed a friendship with a young English investigative journalist, Ellie. When she goes to meet a contact in...

Feast Days

Feast Days
  • Author(s): Ian MacKenzie
  • Location(s): Sao Paulo
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Intelligent and deeply felt, Feast Days follows a young wife who relocates with her financier husband to Sao Paulo–a South American megacity that impresses and unsettles, conceals and erupts. Here in her new home, she reckons with the twenty-first...

Paradise City

Paradise City
  • Author(s): Joe Thomas
  • Location(s): Sao Paulo
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Mario Leme is a low-ranking detective in the Sao Paolo civil police. Every day on the way to work he sets off early and drives through the favela known as Paraisopolis – Paradise City. It’s a pilgrimage: his wife...

1822

1822
  • Author(s): Laurentino Gomes
  • Location(s): Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo

1822, How a wise man, a sad princess and a money crazy Scotsman helped D. Pedro create Brazil, a country that had everything to go wrong. A book set in Brazil. This is a non-fiction historical book written by...

Heliopolis

Heliopolis
  • Author(s): James Scudamore
  • Location(s): Sao Paulo
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Set against a city on the edge of reality, of high towers and seething favelas, of rich enclaves and social stratification. Ludo is a boy taken from the slum of Heliopolis and raised in the gated wealth of Angel...

Perfect Hatred

Perfect Hatred
  • Author(s): Leighton Gage
  • Location(s): Argentina, Curitiba, Sao Paulo
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Chief Inspector Mario Silva and his team have a heavy work load with several high-profile cases. First, a suicide bombing that was apparently the work of a militant Islamist group. Then, a gubernatorial candidate is assassinated in broad daylight...

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