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Every Bitter Thing A Chief Inspector Mario Silva Investigation Set in Brazil Leighton Gage 9781569478455 Books

I was sent to this book by other Amazon reviewers and am grateful to them. Plan to read the others.
The positives of this book:
1. The writing is taut and and prose is beautifully descriptive. I have only been to Brazil for a tourist stopover, but I can see the places in the writing.
2. The characters (mainly policemen and women) are well drawn and, together, are quite a bit more than the sum of their parts.
3. The police work at a series of baffling and horrible murders and with diligent work, discover that they are connected. They keep being diligent and creative (how they found a pair of suspects who are hiding was quite creative). Eventually, they identify the who and the why. They would have eventually gotten there by the process of elimination. I am entertained by this, I think real, portrayal of how crimes are solved. No genius, no miraculous insight. Just hard work by folks with different skills. (There is a totally tangential character who illustrates the need for diversity of skill: his is skill at delivering very sad news.)
4. All of the murders are tragedies but one is a tragedy and a terrible sin and was caused by laziness and indifference. The detectives and the reader share anger about this sin.
5. There are some good detectives who are capable and are interested in doing their jobs well. There are also some despicable people and some fools on the police force. Much like real life. The description of the powerful fool is particularly well drawn.

The author paints a Brazilian bureaucracy and police force that is politically driven (one of the victims is the son of a well connected figure) and which targets resources according to class. Part of the plot included bribery of police officials. I read other reviewers viewing this as particularly Brazilian. I differ and believe that focus on crimes affecting the more privileged and the disregard for folks of unknown privilege are very much in place in the US criminal justice system. Callous treatment of folks thought to be poor and unconnected also happens here, as does bribery. We in the US also promote total jerks to positions of power. So I see this as life, not as Brazilian life.

I do have a significant criticism. The last two pages of the book, IMHO, do not follow from the story and were not expected actions from the characters developed in the book. This unconnected ending was also unrealistic and unnecessary. I could say more but do not want to spoil. I am willing to pretend that these pages did not exist.


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Every Bitter Thing A Chief Inspector Mario Silva Investigation Set in Brazil Leighton Gage 9781569478455 Books Reviews

The characters were great, the plot moved quickly and I couldn't solve it, the cultural history was interesting, and the dialogue was powerful. Loved it and will definitely read more by this author
There is not a wasted word in this continuing saga of Chief Inspector Silva's war on crime in Brazil. As with most series, it is best to start with the first, to get the full back beat. But this volume stands fully on its own as a classic police procedural.
After reading a few Mario Silva books you won't want to visit Brazil. However there are a few other places I don't want to visit. That said, it is a brutal tale well told with great characters, both heroes and villains. I probably will finish this series.
Every Bitter Thing is another great book in Leighton Gage's Chief Inspector Mario Silva series.

What I like so much about the writing is that it's fast paced, the characters are great, I especially like Silva. He runs a tight investigation and as in the other books, justice is served.

You get a strong sense of what it's like in Brazil, what the people are like and a realistic perspective of just how corrupt and uncaring the police are.

If you like well plotted police procedurals with characters you'll despise and others you'll like and want to see more of you'll enjoy reading this book.

I also loved the first three in the series and I'm looking forward to the fifth.
Don't pick up Every Bitter Thing if you plan to read a chapter or two a night for the next week. It is far too suspenseful, too exciting and too intricate to put down for something as mundane as getting some sleep before you go to work the next day. The plot is complex with new twists every time you think you're beginning to unravel it. This is a classic who-done-it. It is also violent and brutal. Leighton Gage shows a side of life some people don't want to see. But it is a honest portrait of a reality that lies far East of Eden with a population bleeding from thorn and briar gashes but alive and alert and clawing through the vines to pull themselves ahead. The ray of compassion and hope penetrating through the jungle is Mario Silva of Brazil's Federal Police, the protagonist of at least three previous Gage novels. In spite of working in an inefficient, corrupt political system that makes it easy for brutal criminals to thrive, Silva manages to achieve at least specific independent instances of poetic justice. The conclusion of this novel is brilliant and completely satisfying.
The story and the characters were excellent. A little hard to believe that an airline clerk could carry out that many murders so quickly. Some good details about Brasil help foster the story forward.
Among the many things I love about this author is his uncanny ability to situate you in a real life environment, draw accurate and poignant characters and keep you on the edge of your seat throughout. The writing is crisp and sharp with insightful and real commentary all along the way. One of the things I always loved about John D. McDonald was his ability to make social commentary on the actions of the characters, society and common prevailing beliefs without ever getting preachy or didactic... just slipping it in the most natural of ways. You read those books as much for how McDonald saw the world and his commentary on it as you did for the action and character development. I think Mr. Gage is on to the same rich vein here and, to me, his wry and practiced eye reveals a world to us that we would never penetrate on our own. Bravo for another tour de force.
I was sent to this book by other reviewers and am grateful to them. Plan to read the others.
The positives of this book
1. The writing is taut and and prose is beautifully descriptive. I have only been to Brazil for a tourist stopover, but I can see the places in the writing.
2. The characters (mainly policemen and women) are well drawn and, together, are quite a bit more than the sum of their parts.
3. The police work at a series of baffling and horrible murders and with diligent work, discover that they are connected. They keep being diligent and creative (how they found a pair of suspects who are hiding was quite creative). Eventually, they identify the who and the why. They would have eventually gotten there by the process of elimination. I am entertained by this, I think real, portrayal of how crimes are solved. No genius, no miraculous insight. Just hard work by folks with different skills. (There is a totally tangential character who illustrates the need for diversity of skill his is skill at delivering very sad news.)
4. All of the murders are tragedies but one is a tragedy and a terrible sin and was caused by laziness and indifference. The detectives and the reader share anger about this sin.
5. There are some good detectives who are capable and are interested in doing their jobs well. There are also some despicable people and some fools on the police force. Much like real life. The description of the powerful fool is particularly well drawn.

The author paints a Brazilian bureaucracy and police force that is politically driven (one of the victims is the son of a well connected figure) and which targets resources according to class. Part of the plot included bribery of police officials. I read other reviewers viewing this as particularly Brazilian. I differ and believe that focus on crimes affecting the more privileged and the disregard for folks of unknown privilege are very much in place in the US criminal justice system. Callous treatment of folks thought to be poor and unconnected also happens here, as does bribery. We in the US also promote total jerks to positions of power. So I see this as life, not as Brazilian life.

I do have a significant criticism. The last two pages of the book, IMHO, do not follow from the story and were not expected actions from the characters developed in the book. This unconnected ending was also unrealistic and unnecessary. I could say more but do not want to spoil. I am willing to pretend that these pages did not exist.