Gregory Mcdonald: Carioca Fletch (USA 2018)

From the Publisher:
"Good pacing, good humor, and good writing make Mcdonald's latest another fan pleaser." -- Booklist on Son of Fletch

In this installment of the popular Fletch series, Mcdonald brings to life the vibrant, provocative culture and indomitable spirit of Brazil.

After escaping to South America on a questionable "arrangement," Fletch has all but settled in to his new life of never-ending vacation, shacking up with the young and beautiful Laura Soares, enjoying the expansive Copacabana Beach, making new friends from all walks of life, and preparing for the most exciting time of the year in Rio de Janeiro: Carnival!

But right before the festivities begin, an old woman off the street tells Fletch that he's the reincarnation of her husband and implores him to solve the mystery of his death. Caught between the rhythmic chaos of Carnival and this past-life murder, Fletch starts to lose more than just sleep as he pokes around through favelas and sambas through nightclubs searching for answers.

Gregory Mcdonald: Carioca Fletch. Blackstone Publishing, ISBN: 9781538541982 (November, 2018), 240 p., $15.99.

Gregory Mcdonald: Carioca Fletch (USA 2002)

From the Publisher:
Carioca Fletch
Fletch's trip to Brazil wasn't exactly planned. But it's Carnival time in Rio and he has plenty of money, thanks to a little arrangement made stateside. And it took him no time to hook up with the luscious Laura Soares. Fletch is beginning to relax, just a little.

Carioca Fletch
But between the American widow who seems to be following Fletch and the Brazilian widow who's fingered Fletch as her long-dead husband, he suddenly doesn't have much time to enjoy the present or even get a wink of sleep.

Carioca Fletch
A thirty-year-old unsolved murder, a more recent suicide, an inconvenient heart attack–somehow Fletch is connected to all of them and one of those connections might just shorten his own life. From Rio to Bahia and back again, at the height of Carnival, Fletch has to keep moving or get stopped cold.

Gregory Mcdonald: Carioca Fletch. Vintage Books, ISBN: 0375713476 (October, 2002), 190 p., $12.00.

Gregory Mcdonald: Carioca Fletch (UK 1986)

From the Publisher:
The International Bestseller
It's carnival time in Rio... and lounging amidst this greatest spectacle on earth is Fletch -- clutching three million dollars from a murder contract he didn't complete.

But then an ancient crone from one of the city's favelas shrilly claims that Fletch is her husband, killed forty-seven years before... and now reincarnated for the purpose of naming his original murderer.

And to Fletch's astonishment -- everyone believes her!

"Always ingenious and entertaining... Very much recommended" -- Glasgow Herald
"Amusing and intelligent... vivid brio" -- Standard
"Undoubtedly one of the most engaging characters to enter thriller-fiction in recent years" -- Time Out

Gregory Mcdonald: Carioca Fletch. Arrow Books, ISBN: 0099400200 (March, 1986), 190 p., £1.95.

Gregory Mcdonald: Carioca Fletch (USA 1984)

From the Publisher:
Front cover:
The hag's cheek, wet with tears, was against Fletch's. She smelled terribly of cooking oils, fish, and other things.
Fletch did not want to breathe. He wanted to gag.
"The important thing is," Laura spoke respectfully, "is that forty-seven years ago, when you were a young man in another life, you were murdered. Now you must tell your family who murdered you... Clearly you cannot rest until you do."

Back cover:
IT'S CARNIVAL IN BRAZIL
and Fletch is fast becoming a carioca! He's stripped down to his shorts because of the heat, carries his money in his shoe because of the thieves, drinks guarana and is just watching the women walk -- because that's the way Brazilians enjoy life.

CARIOCA FLETCH
But some people think that Fletch is more Brazilian than he knows. In fact, people think that he's the reincarnation of a murdered Brazilian. And worst of all, the murderer thinks so, too -- and wants to stop Fletch before he remembers too much!

GREGORY MCDONALD
twice the winner of MWA's Edgar Allan Poe Award, "can write circles around most of his competitors." -- New York Times Book Review
"Mcdonald is so smart, terse and witty that he is an outright pleasure to read. I'm going back now and read all the Fletch books in order." -- Peter Straub, author of Ghost Story

Gregory Mcdonald: Carioca Fletch. Warner Books, ISBN: 0446303046 (April, 1984), 190 p., $3.50.