Paradise City
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 Renata was gunned down at an intersection here a year ago, the victim of a stray bullet in a conflict between drug dealers. One morning, parked near the place where Renata died, he sees an SUV careen out of control and flip over. The driver Leo is killed, but before his body is removed, Leme is sure he sees bullet wounds. Leo's death wasn't an accident, he was murdered. Soon, his girlfriend turns up dead too. And if they were killed deliberately, perhaps Renata was too ...
Joe Thomas is a visiting lecturer in English Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London. Prior to this, he lived and taught in Sao Paulo for ten years. Paradise City is his first novel. The second book in the series - Gringa - will be published by Arcadia in 2018.
Author: Joe Thomas
Format: Paperback, 400 pages, 135mm x 216mm
Published: 2016, Quercus Publishing, United Kingdom
Genre: Crime, Thriller & Adventure
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 Renata was gunned down at an intersection here a year ago, the victim of a stray bullet in a conflict between drug dealers. One morning, parked near the place where Renata died, he sees an SUV careen out of control and flip over. The driver Leo is killed, but before his body is removed, Leme is sure he sees bullet wounds. Leo's death wasn't an accident, he was murdered. Soon, his girlfriend turns up dead too. And if they were killed deliberately, perhaps Renata was too ...
Joe Thomas is a visiting lecturer in English Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London. Prior to this, he lived and taught in Sao Paulo for ten years. Paradise City is his first novel. The second book in the series - Gringa - will be published by Arcadia in 2018.