Blood of the Wicked, Leighton Gage (3.0)
It took me a bit to get into this story due to how the stage is set and characters introduced. I enjoyed the last half a lot more than the first half. The main story is about landowners vs those who work the land in a remote area of Brazil. A Bishop is assassinated and the main character, a federal investigator named Mario Silva, arrives from the big city to find the killer. I have read so little fiction from and about Brazil that I mostly appreciated the setting and interactions of the people. Many of the evil characters were two-dimensional and the gore was quite graphic. Mario is complex, neither all good nor all evil. I can see why this is the first book in a series with him facing new challenges.
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