Finished July 2026 This was the second of my two Brazilian books, and about as far from Dom Casmurro as you can get while staying inside the same country. Patrícia Melo is Brazil’s best-selling crime writer, and I went in braced for a whodunnit. It isn’t one. There is no detective, no puzzle, and no … Continue reading The Body Snatcher — Not the Crime Novel I Was Expecting