Leighton Gage

As Chief Inspector Mario Silva has learned, justice is hard to come by in Brazil, so when his niece tells him about a possible genocide deep in the jungle, he agrees to round up his team and charter a plane to Par to check it out. Thirty-nine natives have recently dropped dead of mysterious causes. Given the tense relationship between the Awana...

Chief Inspector Mario Silva and his team have a heavy work load with several high-profile cases. First, a suicide bombing that was apparently the work of a militant Islamist group. Then, a gubernatorial candidate is assassinated in broad daylight at a campaign rally. Could the cases be related? To complicate Silva's investigation, a criminal...

A Chief Inspector Mario Silva InvestigationIt is the eve of the FIFA World Cup, the globe's premier sporting event. The host country is Brazil. A victory for the home team is inextricably linked to the skills of the country's principal striker, Tico ';The Artist' Santos, the greatest player in the history of the sport. All the...

';Blood of the Wicked manages to pack a huge amount into a spare three hundred pages; power politics, petty violence, sexual scandal, saintly courage, staggering poverty and obscene wealth. A book that makes you care about its large cast of characters, even when you know that they are going to diefrequently horribly. This is a novel as rich and...

A Chief Inspector Mario Silva InvestigationThe granddaughter of a prominent politician is missing. Silva and his team find her in Manaus, a jungle hellhole on the Amazon where an evil female doctor is making gory snuff films. Silva must overcome his own department's indifference and the corrupt local cops before he can obtain a semblance of...

A Chief Inspector Mario Silva InvestigationPraise for Leighton Gage's Chief Inspector Mario Silva series: ';Realistic characters that the readers can care about. . . . The ultimate story of the haves vs. the have nots.'Detroit Free Press ';Gage's compelling novels are good examples of how talented crime writers use the...