Carioca Fletch
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In this installment of the popular Fletch series, Mcdonald brings to life the vibrant, provocative culture and indomitable spirit of Brazil.
After escaping to South America on a questionable “arrangement,” Fletch has all but settled in to his new life of never-ending vacation, shacking up with the young and beautiful Laura Soares, enjoying the expansive Copacabana Beach, making new friends from all walks of life, and preparing for the most exciting time of the year in Rio de Janeiro: Carnival!
But right before the festivities begin, an old woman off the street tells Fletch that he’s the reincarnation of her husband and implores him to solve the mystery of his death. Caught between the rhythmic chaos of Carnival and this past-life murder, Fletch starts to lose more than just sleep as he pokes around through favelas and sambas through nightclubs searching for answers.
Gregory Mcdonald
Edgar-winner author of the "acidly funny novels starring the subversive sleuth" known as Fletch and former Boston Globe reporter Gregory Mcdonald, 71, died of prostate cancer in 2008.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Some good carnival scenes, but Fletch's sardonic view of the world doesn't play as well when he's the privileged outsider, rather than the underprivileged outsider.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5OK - but not great. Fletch is in Brazil and has no job but does have a girlfriend. He gets embroiled in solving a murder 47 years in the past when he is mistaken for the dead man by his widow. Hijinx galore around Carnival with Fletch getting no sleep for 3 days and nearly killed by his former murderer. Enjoyable, but not fantastic.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Carioca Fletch takes Fletch and deposits him in Rio in the middle of Carnival week. Part travelogue, part mystery, part comedy, the story has Fletch accused of murder and followed halfway around the world by a bereaved widow, sealed in a coffin, possessed by the spirit of a man who died forty years ago, burying bodies at sea, beaten to an inch of his life, confused, dismayed, a stranger in a strange land.
This isn't a plot-driven story as much as it's a series of glimpses of a few days in Rio and various odd events. It doesn't have the format or structure of a traditional novel. Don't read this expecting a story that slowly builds to a climax. It's more like watching an ever-changing parade. - Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Fletch goes to Brazil for Carnivale in Carioca Fletch and gets into all the sorts of semi-comical scrapes that longtime Fletch readers know all too well. This is not one of the better entries in the Fletch series although it does get a later shout out in Son of Fletch when Fletch compares the dancing of some of his Brazilian friends to the "moves" of some neo-nazis he encounters.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A small mystery wrapped in Rio’s Carnivale. A small mystery wrapped in Rio’s Carnivale. In a sense the sequel to the first Fletch. Fletch is the look alike of a man who had been murdered thirty years earlier. The widow asks him to reveal who murdered him.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I really enjoyed this selection. I enjoyed it more than most other readers seem to have. It is set in Brazil.