Carioca Fletch

The Fletch Mysteries, Book 7

By: Gregory Mcdonald

Narrated by: Dan John Miller

Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins

Publisher's summary

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 he made stateside. It took him no time to hook up with the luscious Laura Soares. Fletch is beginning to relax, just a little.

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.

A 30-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.

©2018 Gregory Mcdonald (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

7th but second

a little adventure after fletch fled the country with 3 million dollars in cash. this takes place some weeks later with Fletcher throwing money at everyone. it's not as interesting as his first adventure and with no one knowing him personally in Brazil he doesn't seem to be an asshole. he sloves a murder that happened 47 years in the past and help dump the body of a friend in the ocean.

Not a template series

Each book is unique. Great characters. Not in chronological order. Excellent narrator. Storylines are very entertaining.

Not my favorite

I love the Fletch series but this one was hard to get into. From the location to the language it at times was hard to follow. Dan John miller does an exceptional job though. Love his reading, voices etc

Still Worth Listening To (imo)

This is my least favorite story in the series, but it still has some entertainment value. I’m personally drawn to Fletch the investigative reporter more than Fletch the cultured man of the world.

Worth a listen

I agree with the other reviewers that there was a lot of Rio in this. Some crazy stuff. But it all kind of pays off.

Great book

Maybe a little history of Brazil.
People will believe what they want to believe enjoy.

Series Least Favorite

Of the books in this series I’ve read so far, this is my least favorite. It's more about Brazil than the mystery. Good info about Brazil’s history and culture, but sooo much of the tale was devoted to it, I got impatient!

Carnival in Rio . Wow

I've enjoyed most of the Fletch books, but this was a doozies. It actually took me a while to really get into it. The tap dancers should have been spanked like the children that they are. Someone should take them in hand and get them to grow up.

A small mystery wrapped in Rio’s Carnivale

A small mystery wrapped in Rio’s Carnivale. A small mystery wrapped in Rio’s Carnivale. In a sense the sequel to the first Fletch. Fletch is the look alike of a man who had been murdered thirty years earlier. The widow asks him to reveal who murdered him.

the one Fletch book you don't have to read

after having read the first six books in the Fletch series. I got to this one and was underwhelmed. It was less a clutch story and more of a Love letter to the Brazil of 1984. My assumption is the writer may have gone there and fell in love with the country and the mythos and everything and decided to integrate it into his next story. this, was a terrible idea. there is a Fletch mystery in there and it's okay, but in truth of you pulled it out of all of the melancholy meanderings about Brazil being so wonderful, it would feel about one chapter if lucky. I'm still going to read on to the other books and hopes that they are not travel logs also. but as I said in the title, this is the one book you can skip in the series.