Thriller stories in European Portuguese

Thrillers with a clock running. At A1, ten-year-old Miguel picks up a bag a running man has dropped and finds an envelope full of money. At A2, a courier has to deliver a parcel to Mouraria that seems to move. At B1, Sara gets a call from an unknown number saying her husband is in danger, and then cannot reach him.

Most are at B2, where the language can carry real tension: a photographer followed around Lisbon for three days, an archivist at the Torre do Tombo who finds a PIDE file that could ruin a national hero, a junior accountant about to report her boss to the CMVM, an expert asked to tell an original painting from a forgery, the ghost of the Quinta da Regaleira and a nineteenth-century port that vanishes from a cellar in Gaia.

At C1, an archivist discovers that files on land expropriations from the 1970s are missing from the national archive, and an investigative journalist exposes a corruption network at the risk of his own safety. Start with A Fuga.