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Death of a Telenovela Star (A Novella) (A Havana Mystery Book 3)

Death of a Telenovela Star (A Novella) (A Havana Mystery Book 3)
  • Author(s): Teresa Dovalpage
  • Location(s): Havana
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Teresa Dovalpage’s deliciously twisted novella, set on a Caribbean cruise, showcases the dark—sometimes deadly—side of celebrity. Former Havana detective Marlene Martínez, now happily running a bakery in Miami, has booked a week-long cruise to Mexico and the Caribbean with...

Dirty Havana Trilogy

Dirty Havana Trilogy
  • Author(s): Pedro Juan Gutiérrez
  • Location(s): Havana
  • Genre(s): Fiction

Dirty Havana Trilogy tells the story of Pedro Juan, an ex-radio journalist who wanders from one odd job to the next, half-disgusted and half-fascinated by his predicament. Working as a garbage-man, dealing on the black market, selling marijuana, and...

Escape to Havana

Escape to Havana
  • Author(s): Nick Wilkshire
  • Location(s): Havana, Cuba (Republic of)
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
  • Era(s): current

For Charlie Hillier, a posting to Cuba could be the perfect place to start his new life — if he survives it. With his career stalled and the office abuzz about his soon-to-be-ex-wife’s indiscretions, Ottawa bureaucrat Charlie Hillier is...

Grab a Snake by the Tail

Grab a Snake by the Tail
  • Author(s): Leonardo Padura, Peter Bush (Translator)
  • Location(s): Havana
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

Inspector Mario Conde investigates a murder in the Barrio Chino, the rundown Chinatown of Havana. Not his usual beat, but when he’s asked to take the case by the beautiful Police Lieutenant Patricia Chion, he cant resist. Pedro Cuang...

Havana Run

Havana Run
  • Author(s): Les Standiford
  • Location(s): Havana
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

John Deal has spent many years trying to reinstigate the building company, which his Father ran into the ground. He is offered a project in Havana but it is not what he anticipates: the prospect of a jail break....

High Tea with Castro

High Tea with Castro
  • Author(s): Bea W Meyer
  • Location(s): Cuba (Republic of)
  • Genre(s): Travelogue

Two middle aged ladies from Canada on vacation in Cuba: more than a discovery of country and people this becomes a journey back in time and history reviving long lost memories of the past. Their daily observations reach from...

Island of Secrets

Island of Secrets
  • Author(s): Rachel Rhys
  • Location(s): Cuba (Republic of), Havana
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1957

1957: Iris Bailey is bored to death of working in the typing pool and living with her parents in Hemel Hempstead. A gifted portraitist with a talent for sketching party guests, she dreams of becoming an artist. So she...

Lady Be Good

Lady Be Good
  • Author(s): Amber Brock
  • Location(s): Havana, Miami, New York City (NYC)
  • Era(s): 1950s

Set in the 1950s, Lady Be Good marks Amber Brock’s mesmerizing return, sweeping readers into the world of the mischievous, status-obsessed daughter of a hotel magnate and the electric nightlife of three iconic cities: New York, Miami, and Havana....

Love and Ruin

Love and Ruin
  • Author(s): Paula McLain
  • Location(s): Cuba (Republic of), China, Finland, Madrid
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

In 1937, courageous and independent Martha Gellhorn travels to Madrid to report on the atrocities of the Spanish Civil War, and finds herself drawn to the stories of ordinary people caught in devastating conflict. She also finds herself unexpectedly...

Of Women and Salt

Of Women and Salt
  • Author(s): Gabriela Garcia
  • Location(s): Cuba (Republic of)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1866, 1959, 2016

We are force. We are more than we think we are. Five generations of women, linked by blood and circumstance, by the secrets they share, and by a single book passed down through a family, with an affirmation scrawled...

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