✍ Tony Bellotto
📂 Fiction
📅 2016
🏛 Akashic Books
🌐 English
⚖ 371 KB
✦ LIBER ✦
Rio Noir
✍ Scribed by Tony Bellotto
- Publisher
- Akashic Books
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 317 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
"The latest installment of Akashic's geographically wide-ranging mystery series lands in Rio de Janeiro, a city whose famous imagery--the massive statue of Christ the Redeemer, Sugarloaf mountain, the beautiful beaches--constitutes the public face of the city, but behind lurks a 'world of shadows, blood, intrigue, violence, hideouts, and mystery'...A good introduction to writers of the region and to the dark side of a very sunny place."
--Booklist
"As Rio de Janeiro prepares to host the 2016 summer Olympics amid fears of the Zika virus, this anthology of 14 dark and violent short stories set in the Brazilian city might give prospective visitors more reasons to be concerned...A solid addition to Akashic's acclaimed noir series."
--Publishers Weekly
Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or...
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