num_pages: 240
description: Inspector Espinosa unwittingly ignites the obsessions of a menacing misanthrope in the latest from the highly acclaimed mystery author An elderly lady approaches the front desk at the Twelfth Precinct in Copacabana and demands to speak with the chief. Tired after a long day she leaves without further explanation promising to return. Two hours later Doa Laureta is dead and witnesses accounts vary as to whether she was pushed or fell in front of the bus that killed her on one of the busiest avenues in the city. Veteran police chief inspector Espinosa quickly pinpoints a suspect in Hugo Breno an unassuming bank teller whose solitary existence takes on a sinister cast as he shadows the inspectors movements across the city. Meanwhile Espinosa discovers an unsettling connection from the past between himself and Breno and must turn his trademark psychological inquiry inward to determine how murky memories of a murder from long ago might play into Doa Lauretas untimely passing. Chilling and ultimately heart-stopping Alone in the Crowd presents Espinosa as we have never seen him before the man of detached expertise and calm self-assurance entangled in a mystery where reason alone will not suffice.
language: English
title: Alone in the Crowd
publisher: Henry Holt and Co.