December Heat
Subtitle: An Inspector Espinoza Mystery
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Published: June 9, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780805068900
Subjects: Portuguese (Language) Contemporary Fiction; Fiction - Mystery/ Detective; Mystery/Suspense; Mystery & Detective - General; Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General; Mystery fiction
First sentence: It wasn't the nasty words that woke the boy up late at night-he was used to sleeping with noise-but the banging on the cardboard box, a discarded refrigerator container someone had tossed onto the sidewalk a couple of days before and that had now become his bed and home.