Leighton Gage’s books are crime novels set in Brazil. The author has lived in Australia, Europe, and South America and traveled widely in Asia and Africa. He visited Spain in the time of Franco, Portugal in the time of Salazar, South Africa in the time of apartheid, Chile in the time of Pinochet, Argentina in the time of the junta, Prague, East Germany, and Yugoslavia under the Communist yoke. He and his wife spend much of the year in a small town near São Paulo,

and the rest in Europe and the United States, where they have children and grandchildren.

THE CHIEF INSPECTOR

MARIO SILVA INVESTIGATIONS

PRAISE FOR LEIGHTON GAGE’S CHIEF INSPECTOR MARIO SILVA SERIES

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All the step-by-step excitement of a world-class procedural series - The Wall Street Journal


South America’s Kurt Wallander - Booklist


Top notch...controversial and entirely absorbing...(Silva is) irresistible - New York Times


Masterful - Toronto Globe and Mail


Compelling - The Boston Globe


Fascinating, complex and riveting - Florida Sun Sentinel


Intelligent and subtle…suspenseful and sophisticated - Publisher’s Weekly


Highly recommended - Library Journal


Blurring the distinction between literary fiction and crime fiction,

this is a book that…needs to be read - Sherbroke Herald (Quebec, CA)


Clever dialogue, a twisting plot and an...engaging, fast-paced story that is hard

to put away for the night - Minneapolis Star Tribune


...a cracker...the Silva series just gets better and better – International Noir Fiction


The work of a master craftsman – New Mystery Reader


...a writer who knows how to take you to the edge and back – The Denver Post


Mr. Gage is a master of the procedural who paints with a fine brush, using the tools

he needs to craft a fine novel—and no more. – New York Journal of Books