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A window in Copacabana

Title

A window in Copacabana / Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza ; translated by Benjamin Moser.

Author

García-Roza, L. A. (Luiz Alfredo)

Publication

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Additional Authors

Moser, Benjamin.

Description

243 pages; 22 cm

Summary

When three unpopular police officers are killed by an assassin in Rio de Janeiro, 12th Precinct chief Espinosa links another death to the murders and finds things complicated by a government official's wife, who has become obsessed with the case.
"Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro. Three policemen have been killed over the course of a few days. They were mediocre cops, and their deaths have a lot in common: they were eliminated by a cold-blooded assassin, who leaves no traces and likes to fire at point-blank range." "Immediately, the police world is thrown into turmoil. Who would risk running around the city killing cops, even unpopular ones? People involved in drug trafficking? Other policemen? Espinosa, chief of the 12th Precinct, doesn't have much to go on. And 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 appears, as Espinosa finds himself in his old haunts of Leme and Copacabana, and in the murky terrain of corruption, secret lives, greed, and fear."--BOOK JACKET.

Uniform Title

Janela em Copacabana. English

Alternative Title

Janela em Copacabana.

Subject

Genre/Form

Mystery fiction.

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ISBN

LCCN

2004052336

OCLC

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries