Mystery and crime stories in European Portuguese

15 stories from A1 to C2

Detectives, secrets and things that are not what they seem: a wallet lost on the Lisbon metro, a widowed neighbour on the fifth floor who disappears for three days, a bookshop's strange last night, a diary found in an inherited house in Sintra, Detective Fonseca watching a suspect in Alfama, Inspector Moura's table in a tasca.

Higher up there is a secret dossier on suspicious building licences, a buried medieval basilica, a family secret uncovered while sorting a grandmother's house, a journalist who investigates a mysterious man in her own neighbourhood, a defence lawyer who learns her client is guilty, and a manuscript about the sacred architecture of Évora.

A mystery gives you a reason to keep reading, which is half the battle in a new language. The genre covers every level from A1 to C2. Start with A Carteira Perdida at A1, then O Último Dia da Livraria at A2.

Each story page shows the opening in Portuguese with the English under every paragraph, and a glossary of key words. The whole story is in the reader, with audio for every sentence and tap-to-translate on every word.

A1 — Beginner

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A2 — Elementary

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B1 — Intermediate

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B2 — Upper Intermediate

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C1 — Advanced

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C2 — Mastery

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