Douro Editions "Through reading, we become absent from ourselves and our own lives." Alphonse Karr
Peter Brooklyn
After living in Paris, Lisbon, and New York, Peter Brooklyn settled in Madeira. He published "The Mists of Lisbon" with City Editions and "The Sheriff and the Rabbis" with Douro Editions. Inspector Pereira's investigations are a pretext for discovering a region and its colorful characters, with a critical yet amused eye. A keen observer of Portuguese society, Peter Brooklyn denounces corruption as much as he praises the local gastronomy.
After the bloody murder of a Portuguese-American sheriff at the Ritz Hotel in Lisbon, Pereira is dispatched to New Jersey to help the FBI find the murderer. Accompanied by Ted Buffalo, a burly Navajo Indian, Pereira plunges into an underworld filled with tattooed criminals, three-piece-suited mobsters, and unorthodox rabbis. The sheriff, adored by the Portuguese community of Newark, was in fact a cunning crook with multiple schemes. Pereira discovers a Portuguese community fiercely defending its culture and frozen in time. From Chinatown to Staten Island, from Manhattan to Miami, Pereira interviews colorful and questionable characters. Immersed among minorities aggressively defending their territory, Pereira will uncover the truth at the end of a painful journey. Release date: October 1, 2023 Order
