Amazon.com description: Product Description: It's Carnaval time in exotic Rio de Janeiro and Tony Kozol has been invited. Working for Luis Angel, a hot Latin pop singing sensation, Tony Kozol, guitarist and amateur sleuth, packs his bags and heads for Rio. Samba is in the streets...and murder is around the next corner. In The Body From Ipanema, Tony and his sidekick, Rock, find themselves surrounded by the beauty and intrigue in a land where not all is as it seems. Tony accompanies a Latin pop star at Rio de Janeiro's Carnaval. Tony and his bassist pal, Rock, are seduced by Brazil's bathing beauties, music and nightlife, but not so much that they won't try to nail a rich and powerful man for murdering a young woman. Glenn Meganck, aka JR Ripley is the critically acclaimed author of the Tony Kozol mystery series and other works.