Popular South American Mystery Books
Find mystery books written by authors from South America for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (17)
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All My Goodbyes by Mariana Dimopulos EN
Country: South America / 
Argentina
Argentina
Description:
This highly acclaimed contemporary Argentinian novel is the first in Giramondo’s Literature of the South series, featuring innovative fiction and non-fiction by writers of the southern hemisphere. It is translated from the Spanish by Australian translator Alice Whitmore. All My Goodbyes is a novel told in overlapping vignettes, which follow the travels of a young Argentinian woman across Europe (Málaga, Madrid, Heidelberg, Berlin) and back to Argentina (Buenos Aires, Patagonia) as she flees from situation to situation, job to job, and relationship to relationship. Within the complexity of the ... continue
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Child's Play by Carmen Posadas EN
Country: South America / 
Uruguay
Uruguay
Description:
Luisa Davila is an established Spanish mystery writer who decides that her detective's next case will involve the suspicious death of a child at an elite private day school. However, following the death of one of her daughter's schoolmates, Luisa is troubled by memories of her own past.
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Death in the Andes by Mario Vargas Llosa EN
Country: South America / 
Peru
Peru
Description:
Set in an isolated, rundown community in the Peruvian Andes, Vargas Llosa's novel tells the story of a series of mysterious disappearances involving the Shining Path guerrillas and a local couple performing cannibalistic sacrifices with strange similiarities to the Dionysian rituals of ancient Greece. Part detective novel and part political allegory, it offers a panoramic view of Peruvian society; not only of the current political violence and social upheaval, but also of the country's past and its connection to Indian culture and pre-Hispanic mysticism.
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Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro EN
Country: South America / Argentina
Argentina
Description:
In a single day, a journey across Buenos Aires reveals a daughter to her mother, a mother to herself, and the oppressive weight of received ideas to women connected by a fleeting encounter, twenty years before.
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Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin EN
Country: South America / Argentina
Argentina
Description:
NOW A FEATURE FILM COMING SOON TO NETFLIX "Genius." —Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize! Experience the blazing, surreal sensation of a fever dream... A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. She’s not his mother. He's not her child. Together, they tell a haunting story of broken souls, toxins, and the power and desperation of family. Fever Dream is a nightmare come to life, a ghost story for the real world, a love story and a cautionary tale. One of the freshest new voices to come out of the... continue
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Kill the Boy Band by Goldy Moldavsky EN
Country: South America / Peru
Peru
Description:
Four fan-girls of The Ruperts, sneak away to a hotel in Manhattan to see their favorite boy band, but when one of them literally drags Rupert Pierpont to their room and they tie him up, things get complicated--and when Rupert is killed things go from bad to worse.
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Kill the Next One by Federico Axat EN
Country: South America / Argentina
Argentina
Description:
An audacious psychological thriller where nothing is what it seems. Ted McKay had it all: a beautiful wife, two daughters, a high-paying job. But after being diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor he finds himself with a gun to his temple, ready to pull the trigger. Then the doorbell rings. A stranger makes him a proposition: why not kill two deserving men before dying? The first target is a criminal, and the second is a man with terminal cancer who, like Ted, wants to die. After executing these kills, Ted will become someone else's next target, like a kind of suicidal daisy chain. Ted understa... continue
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Les Malaquias by Andréa Del fuego FR
Country: South America / 
Brazil
Brazil
Description:
Nuit d’orage dans la Serra Morena - la « montagne impraticable » du Brésil. La foudre s’abat sur une maison, ne laissant aucune chance au couple endormi. Leurs trois enfants, en revanche, survivent. L’aîné est embauché dans l’exploitation de café voisine. La fille est adoptée par une riche Arabe de Rio de Janeiro. Pour le benjamin, les difficultés ne font que commencer : se révélant atteint de nanisme, il ne quittera jamais l’orphelinat tenu par des religieuses françaises. Une fois adulte, la fratrie va chercher à se retrouver. Leurs vies se construisent, se croisent et se chevauchent, bouscul... continue
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Lord of the Fly Fest by Goldy Moldavsky EN
Country: South America / Peru
Peru
Description:
New York Times-bestselling author Goldy Moldasky delivers a darkly funny, twisty YA thriller about influencer culture that's Lord of the Flies meets Karen McManus.Rafi Francisco needs a splashy case to put her true crime podcast on the map. She sets her sights on River Stone, the hearthrob musician who rose to stardom after the mysterious disappearance of his girlfriend. Rafi somehow scores a ticket to the exclusive Fly Fest, where River will be the headliner--and her starmaking interview.But when Rafi arrives on the Caribbean island location of Fly Fest with hundreds of other influencers, the... continue
