Body Snatcher

A tightly plotted crime novel of drug dealing gone wrong, police corruption, and macabre blackmail, by Brazil’s best-selling mystery writer.

About the author

Patricia Melo: Patricia Melo is an author and playwright born in Sao Paolo (1962) but now sharing her time between Brazil and in Switzerland. Her novels Lost World, The Killer, In Praise of Lies and Inferno have been published in English to rave reviews.
Clifford Landers: Clifford E. Landers has translated Brazilian Portuguese novels by Rubem Fonseca, Jorge Amado, João Ubaldo Ribeiro, Patrícia Melo, and Paulo Coelho.

Summary

A dead pilot and a kilo of cocaine are found by our hero in the wreck of a small plane. Pressured by a Bolivian drug gang our man agrees to give up the body of the pilot to his family for serious money. Only he doesn't have the body so someone else's will have to do. Or so he thinks.

Product details

• Authors: Patricia Melo, Melo Patricia, Patricia Melo
• Assisted by: Clifford Landers (Translation), Clifford E Landers (Translation), Clifford E. Landers (Translation)
• Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.07.2015
• EAN: 9781908524539
• ISBN: 978-1-908524-53-9
• No. of pages: 220
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies