Copacabana Confidential

By Vincent Hale

A New Orleans cop in Rio de Janeiro: part investigation, part cultural collision, all chaos.

Detective Remy Dumas of the New Orleans Police Department is dispatched to Brazil with a delicate assignment: locate the missing son of a powerful U.S. senator from Louisiana. But nothing in Rio de Janeiro matches the rules he knows.

Drawn through neighborhoods where samba echoes into dawn, where Carnival masks laughter and menace in equal measure, Remy discovers that every lead is tangled in the city's contradictions. Glitter and grit, comedy and danger, beauty and threat-Rio reveals itself as both accomplice and adversary. Along the way, his awkward and often hilarious encounters with Cariocas and locals remind him that surviving Rio means laughing at its chaos as much as navigating its dangers.

Guided by Rita, a sharp-eyed local with her own understanding of the streets, Remy learns that searching for the truth in Rio isn't about following a trail-it's about surviving a city that thrives on mystery.

Copacabana Confidential is a darkly atmospheric noir where suspense collides with absurd humor, and where the real investigation may be into the city itself.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FQ2Q3ZZW
• ISBN13: 9798263980115
• Release Date: September 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 7.8"