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"This story line makes Dying Gasp best for readers who are already familiar with Silva’s investigations." - Booklist. This information about Dying Gasp shown above was first featured in "The BookBrowse Review" - BookBrowse's membership magazine, and in our weekly "Publishing This Week" newsletter. In most cases, the reviews are necessarily limited to those that were available to us ahead of publication. If you are the publisher or author and feel that the reviews shown do not properly reflect the range of media opinion now available, please send us a message with the mainstream media reviews that you would like to see added. Any "Author Information" displayed below reflects the author's biography at the time this particular book was published. Reader Reviews. Reviews "Beyond the Book" articles Free books to read and review (US only) Find books by time period, setting & theme Read-alike suggestions by book and author Book club discussions and much more! Just $12 for 3 months or $39 for a year. Author Information. Leighton Gage Author Biography. Leighton Gage's books are crime novels set in Brazil. The author has lived in Australia, Europe, and South America and traveled widely in Asia and Africa. He visited Spain in the time of Franco, Portugal in the time of Salazar, South Africa in the time of apartheid, Chile in the time of Pinochet, Argentina in the time of the junta, Prague, East Germany, and Yugoslavia under the Communist yoke. He and his wife spent much of the year in a small town near São Paulo, and the rest in Europe and the United States, where they have children and grandchildren. He died in late July 2013 at the age of 71. Dying Gasp. A Chief Inspector Mario Silva Investigation by Leighton Gage. Review : Chief Inspector Mario Silva and his team take on the troubling case of finding the missing granddaughter of a prominent politician in Dying Gasp , the third mystery in this series by Leighton Gage. 15-year-old Marta Malan ran away from home two months earlier after being beaten by her father for dating an 18-year-old woman. Anxious to keep what he considers his family's indiscretions quiet, Deputado Roberto Malan, the girl's grandfather, insists Silva handle the case personally. Silva's investigation leads him to Manaus, the capital city of the state of Amazonas, governed by inept politicians and a corrupt police force. It is believed that Marta is being held by a man called The Goat, who runs the most extensive network of underage prostitutes in the region. But Silva also learns that Manaus may also be the home of a former nemesis of his, Claudia Andrade, a surgeon who disappeared after her illegal organ transplant ring was broken by Silva. That she may now be involved with a new, even more disturbing, criminal activity — one that may have ensnared young Marta Malan — troubles him greatly. As the author notes in an afterward, Dying Gasp is a work of fiction based on some sad realities. It's sometimes difficult to get through some of the chapters, not because they aren't well written — they most certainly are — but because of how graphic they are. No punches are pulled in the description of some of the horrific crimes committed within the context of the story, yet their inclusion is not gratuitous in the least. The plot is well considered and paced, with a cast of interesting characters in an appropriately dank environment dripping with atmosphere. And while the overall style is one of a police procedural in which the reader is essentially omniscient, there are still a few surprising revelations. In all, Dying Gasp is a strong entry in this most sophisticated series of crime novels. Acknowledgment: Soho Press provided an ARC of Dying Gasp for this review. Review Copyright © 2010 — Hidden Staircase Mystery Books — All Rights Reserved. Selected reviews of other mysteries by this author … Buried Strangers Soho Crime (Hardcover), January 2009 ISBN-13: 9781569475140; ISBN-10: 1569475148. Every Bitter Thing Soho Crime (Hardcover), December 2010 ISBN-13: 9781569478455; ISBN-10: 1569478457. Location(s) referenced in Dying Gasp : Brazil. Dying Gasp by Leighton Gage — A Chief Inspector Mario Silva Investigation. Publisher: Soho Crime Format: Hardcover ISBN-13: 978-1-56947-613-0 Publication Date: January 2010 List Price: $24.00. Mysterious Reviews is a Division of The Hidden Staircase Mystery Books and a Business Unit of the Omnimystery Family of Mystery Websites. Dying Gasp by Leighton Gage. Murder By The Book is a well-known and well-respected independent bookstore in Houston, Texas. In their recent newsletter, Michelle writes about DYING GASP, one of her favorite books of the year. From the Murder By The Book newsletter, November 5, 2010: One of Michelle’s favorite books of the year just came out in paperback. We asked her to let us know what so captivated her about it, and why it’s still in her “top ten” even after almost twelve months, “In January the book Dying Gasp (by Leighton Gage; Soho Crime; $14) came out in hardback and I already knew it would be one of my favorites of the year. Now, eleven months later, it’s available in paperback and is still in my top ten. Set against the backdrop of Northern Brazil , in one of the country’s most corrupt states, this dark story is one powerful punch in the gut. When the only daughter of an important politician goes missing with her best friend, it is a major catastrophe but one that cannot be made public. Chief Inspector Silva is forced to follow a trail of evil into Manaus to track her down. He is caught between exposing a truth that could damage a nation and rescuing one teenage girl. This novel is a beautiful juxtaposition of Brazil ’s natural beauty and its corruption.” My review of DYING GASP was written last December. The book was a Christmas present I had requested. It is a very good present because it is a very good book. AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS. “The bomb aboard the number nine tram claimed seventeen lives. Sixteen were passengers. The seventeenth was the driver of a nearby postal truck. Mail from his shattered vehicle littered the cobblestones in from of the Museum of the Tropics and fluttered, like tiny flags, from the branches of the linden trees.” Mail that has been damaged is examined and discovered to contain a bomb of another sort. A postal inspector views a DVD hoping to get some information about the sender and the recipient so the mail can be delivered as promised. But the DVD is the stuff of nightmares not just for the unwitting postal inspector but for the police who have to do something about it. There is no doubt in anyone’s mind that the horror is real. It is a snuff film and the producers provide enough evidence to prove that such films are not an urban legend. There is a victim and there is enough on the film to prove that she died in Brazil. As he did in his previous books, Leighton Gage grabs readers with an immediacy that propels them into the story and compels them to keep turning the pages. Chief Inspector Mario Silva of the Brazil Federal Police is ordered to meet with Roberto Malan, a member of the Chamber of Deputies and one of the wealthiest men in the country. Malan’s granddaughter is missing and he wants the federal police to investigate. Marta is 15 and has been missing for two months. She is an embarrassment to the family and her grandfather would prefer she not be found. Silva is astonished; a rich and politically powerful man has not used his influence to send the police storming through the country. Instead he has ignored her danger for the sake of the family name. But Mario Silva and his team, Hector Costa and Arnaldo Nunes, are determined to find and rescue this girl when they discover that she is in Manaus, a city whose corrupt leaders are notorious throughout the country. Leighton Gage creates nuanced and believable characters and settings that pull the reader into the page. It is storytelling at its best and the reader is engaged throughout the telling of this story because of the truth at its core. It is always the poor, the young, and the innocent that pay the price when people sell their souls. The search for Marta Malan is a search to find and stop the completely corrupted individuals who make money corrupting children, making prostitutes of girls young enough to play with dolls. And it is the story of Silva’s search to find the woman who kills because she finds power in hearing the dying gasp of her victims.
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