Buried Strangers: 0 - Hardcover

A playful dog unearths a human bone in a field outside the city of Sao Paulo. Mario Silva, Chief Inspector for Criminal Matters of the Federal Police of Brazil, based in Brasilia, the capital, and his team of investigators, Hector Costa and Arnaldo Nunez, are called in. The local police may not be as interested in solving crimes as they are.
They soon discover a clandestine cemetery. And then another. Someone has recently and secretly disposed of the bodies of hundreds of human beings whose identities are unknown. But the report of the Medical Examiner reveals that the corpses were often interred in family groups.
It turns out that many customers of a local travel agency have never reached their North American destinations. The motive for these mass murders is completely contemporary and completely appalling.

Leighton Gage is married to a Brazilian woman and spends part of each year in Santana do Parnaiba, Brazil, and the rest of the year in Florida and The Netherlands. He is the author of two novels in the Chief Inspector Mario Silva series.