Window in Copacabana » (First Edition)

A distinguished academic, Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza lives in Rio de Janeiro. This is the fourth book in the series; the fifth, Pursuit, will be published in winter 2006.

Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro. Three policemen have been killed over the course of a few days. Espinosa, chief of the 12th Precinct, doesn't have much to go on. When the body of a woman connected to one of the dead cops is found on the sidewalk below her apartment window, things get even more complicated, as a reputed "witness"—the wife of a high-ranking government official—becomes obsessed with the case, and with Espinosa.

Nothing is quite as it first appears as Espinosa finds himself in his old haunts of Leme and Copacabana, and in the all-too-familiar terrain of corruption, greed, and fear.

The Washington Post - Paul Skenazy

This is entertainment of a high order, sly and smart, giving away nothing until the final pages.