Don’t like the author; yet I’ve read it to speak on it properly.

Four childhood friends, eager for a taste of city life, swap rural Brazil for an apartment in Copacabana, Rio. But they have no idea of the fate that awaits them there. . . . Dante, Piglet, Miguel, and Hugo are your average students trying to make ends meet with part-time jobs, excited about the bright future at their fingertips. So when their rent skyrockets, they struggle to keep their new lives and big dreams afloat. They need to make money however they can. In order to keep their apartment, the friends adopt an unorthodox plan and are soon sucked into a dark world of secret dinner parties catering to the twisted fantasies of Rio’s elite. What starts as a joke quickly spirals out of their control. As the four friends fall deeper into this dark underworld and earn more money, the stakes get higher and the consequences deadlier, revealing the twisted depths that lurk within each of them and threatening not only their friendship but also their lives.

Eva tem a vida perfeita. O seu marido é um jovem advogado em ascensão e as suas filhas gémeas são lindas, inteligentes e saudáveis. O seu trabalho, a arte reborn, é um sucesso na Internet. À sua volta, o condomínio fechado de classe média-alta na Barra da Tijuca, o Blue Paradise, oferece-lhe tudo, evitando que ela precise de sair do conforto de sua casa. Eva tem a vida perfeita, portanto—até descobrir que está grávida e o seu mundo ser virado do avesso. Conhecido pelas histórias de tirar o fôlego, com mais de meio milhão de exemplares vendidos, Raphael Montes inova ao começar este thriller psicológico pelo último capítulo. Assim, como uma bomba-relógio prestes a explodir, seguimos, como leitores, por caminhos surpreendentes, acompanhando as tensões que levam esta família feliz a um final avassalador.

A twisted young medical student kidnaps the girl of his dreams and embarks on a dark and delirious road trip across Brazil in the English-language debut of Brazil's most celebrated young crime writer. Teo Avelar is a loner. He lives with his paraplegic mother and her dog in Rio de Janeiro, he doesn't have many friends, and the only time he feels honest human emotion is in the presence of his medical school cadaver—that is, until he meets Clarice. She's almost his exact opposite: exotic, spontaneous, unafraid to speak her mind. An aspiring screenwriter, she's working on a screenplay called Perfect Days about three friends who go on a road trip across Brazil in search of romance. Teo is obsessed. He begins to stalk her, first following her to her university, then to her home, and when she ultimately rejects him, he kidnaps her and they embark upon their very own twisted odyssey across Brazil, tracing the same route outlined in her screenplay. Through it all, Teo is certain that time is all he needs to prove to Clarice that they are made for each other, that time is all he needs to make her fall in love with him. But as the journey progresses, he digs himself deeper and deeper into a pit that he can't get out of, stopping at nothing to ensure that no one gets in the way of their life together. Both tense and lurid, and brimming with suspense from the very first page, Perfect Days is a psychological thriller in the vein of Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley—a chilling journey in the passenger seat with a psychopath, and the English language debut of one of Brazil's most deliciously dark young writers.

Um porão, nove jovens e uma Magnum 608\. O que poderia ter levado universitários da elite carioca – aparentemente sem problemas – a participar de uma roleta\-russa? Um ano depois do trágico evento, que terminou de forma violenta e bizarramente misteriosa, uma nova pista, até então mantida em segredo pela polícia, ilumina o nebuloso caso. Sob o comando da delegada Diana Guimarães, as mães desses jovens são reunidas para tentar entender o que realmente aconteceu, e os motivos que levaram seus filhos a cometerem suicídio. Por meio da leitura das anotações feitas por um dos suicidas durante o fatídico episódio, as mães são submersas no turbilhão de momentos que culminaram na morte de seus filhos. A reunião se dá em clima de tensão absoluta, verdades são ditas sem a falsa piedade das máscaras sociais e, sorrateiramente, algo maior começa a se revelar.