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![]() | Alone in the Crowd (2009) (The seventh book in the Inspector Espinosa series) A novel by Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza |
Inspector Espinosa unwittingly ignites the obsessions of a menacing misanthrope in the latest from the highly acclaimed mystery author
An elderly lady approaches the front desk at the Twelfth Precinct in Copacabana and demands to speak with the chief. Tired after a long day, she leaves without further explanation, promising to return. Two hours later, Doña Laureta is dead, and witnesses' accounts vary as to whether she was pushed or fell in front of the bus that killed her on one of the busiest avenues in the city.
Veteran police chief inspector Espinosa quickly pinpoints a suspect in Hugo Breno, an unassuming bank teller whose solitary existence takes on a sinister cast as he shadows the inspector's movements across the city. Meanwhile Espinosa discovers an unsettling connection from the past between himself and Breno, and must turn his trademark psychological inquiry inward to determine how murky memories of a murder from long ago might play into Doña Laureta's untimely passing. Chilling and ultimately heart-stopping, Alone in the Crowd presents Espinosa as we have never seen him before, the man of detached expertise and calm self-assurance entangled in a mystery where reason alone will not suffice.
Genre: Mystery
An elderly lady approaches the front desk at the Twelfth Precinct in Copacabana and demands to speak with the chief. Tired after a long day, she leaves without further explanation, promising to return. Two hours later, Doña Laureta is dead, and witnesses' accounts vary as to whether she was pushed or fell in front of the bus that killed her on one of the busiest avenues in the city.
Veteran police chief inspector Espinosa quickly pinpoints a suspect in Hugo Breno, an unassuming bank teller whose solitary existence takes on a sinister cast as he shadows the inspector's movements across the city. Meanwhile Espinosa discovers an unsettling connection from the past between himself and Breno, and must turn his trademark psychological inquiry inward to determine how murky memories of a murder from long ago might play into Doña Laureta's untimely passing. Chilling and ultimately heart-stopping, Alone in the Crowd presents Espinosa as we have never seen him before, the man of detached expertise and calm self-assurance entangled in a mystery where reason alone will not suffice.
Genre: Mystery
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Hardback Editions
July 2009 : Hardback
| Title: Alone in the Crowd: An Inspector Espinosa Mystery (Inspector Espinosa Mysteries) Author(s): Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza ISBN: 0-8050-7959-9 / 978-0-8050-7959-3 (USA edition) Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Paperback Editions
May 2010 : Paperback
| Title: Alone in the Crowd: An Inspector Espinosa Mystery (Inspector Espinosa Mysteries) Author(s): Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza Publisher: Picador Availability: Amazon More details... |
May 2010 : Paperback
| Title: Alone in the Crowd: An Inspector Espinosa Mystery (Inspector Espinosa Mysteries) Author(s): Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza ISBN: 0-312-42988-6 / 978-0-312-42988-1 (USA edition) Publisher: Picador Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
January 2009 : Paperback
| Title: Alone in the Crowd Author(s): Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza Publisher: Henry Holt Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
Other Editions
May 2010 : Kindle edition
| Title: Alone in the Crowd: An Inspector Espinosa Mystery (Inspector Espinosa Mysteries) Author(s): Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
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