The
Mystery of Rio (Murder Mystery)
By
Alberto Mussa
ISBN
#978-1609451363
Europa
Editions
Price
$16.00
192 Pages
Rating
4-Stars
In 1913
Rio de Janeiro, a government official is murdered in a house of prostitution. The
main suspect is the prostitute administering to his needs. The prostitute
disappears completely, and the police are baffled. They find her brother, but
he says he doesn’t know where she is. Did she really kill the man, or has
something befallen her also?
This was
a very weird story. Written like a Cold Case investigation, the narrator
explaining what has happened, and what transpired over the course of the
investigation. The reader is bored with details and history of Rio de Janeiro,
often going off on tangents about other cases centuries before. There is
little, if any, tension or danger to the investigators.
However,
the mystery of the murder was such that the reader will want to follow the case
to its conclusion. Although I had my suspicions about the case, as all the
so-called clues were presented within the first 75 pages, I wanted to find out
if my ideas were correct. This book will interest True Crime readers more than
fiction readers, simply the way it was written, yet it presents a fine mystery
in the telling.
Tom
Johnson
Detective
Mystery Stories
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