The Essential Silva - volume 1

This edition, available exclusively on Kindle, contains the first three books in Leighton Gage's critically-acclaimed Chief Inspector Mario Silva series.

In Blood of the Wicked, Silva and his team go to a small rural town to investigate the murder of a bishop - and suddenly find themselves involved in a war between wealthy landowners and the landless. It's an exciting story of the conflict between Brazil’s “haves” and “have nots”.

In Buried Strangers, a clandestine cemetery is discovered in the rainforest outside of São Paulo. Many of the corpses are members of family groups, including children. But the mass murderer of these victims isn’t a twisted, homicidal maniac as the cops initially believe. The motive for his crimes is totally unexpected, completely contemporary – and completely appalling.

In Dying Gasp, a bomb explodes on a tram in Amsterdam and, shortly thereafter, eight thousand kilometers away, in Brazil, the granddaughter of a powerful politician is kidnapped. In this book, Gage weaves the two incidents together - and transports his readers to an Amazonian hell hole where Chief Inspector Mario Silva reencounters an old enemy.