Pursuit
An Inspector Espinosa Mystery
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3.0 • 3 Ratings
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
In the sultry maze of Rio de Janeiro, a troubled psychiatrist and a beguiling murderer ensnare Inspector Espinosa in a deadly game of cat and mouse.
When his daughter disappears and a patient emerges as the prime suspect, a hospital psychiatrist feels he's being stalked by the young man. Convincing himself of the patient's harmlessness, the doctor is thrown into turmoil when his daughter vanishes and the patient goes missing. Desperate for help, he turns to Inspector Espinosa.
But when the patient turns up dead, it unleashes a chain of mysterious deaths, each seemingly linked to the doctor and his former patient. As Espinosa delves deeper into the doctor's history, the lines blur between stalker and stalked, reality and fantasy, sanity and madness.
In this installment of the "seductive, fascinating" (The New York Times Book Review) series, Pursuit draws readers into the shadowy heart of Rio de Janeiro, where Inspector Espinosa must navigate a labyrinth of secrets to uncover the truth and catch a killer.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The subtlety and nuance that have won Brazilian author Garcia-Roza much acclaim are sadly absent in his fifth Inspector Espinosa mystery (after 2005's A Window in Copacabana). The austere translation makes it difficult to distinguish the voices of Rio cop Espinosa and his colleagues, Ramiro and Welber, as they untangle the complicated stories of psychiatrist Artur Nesse; Nesse's wife, Teresa; and their teenage daughters, Let cia and Roberta. Nesse's family seems to lead a fairly straightforward life until a patient of his, Isidoro Cruz, seduces Let cia. Nesse has them both hospitalized, claiming that Cruz is psychotic and Let cia has suffered a breakdown. When Roberta disappears and Teresa is found dead on a sidewalk bench, the police must unravel a long and confusing chain of events to understand what crimes have been committed and by whom. Little character development takes place against this dark backdrop, though we do learn more about Welber than in previous books, and in the end, with many questions deemed unanswerable, the whole thing seems an exercise in frustration as much for the reader as for Espinosa and his crew.
