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Our Man in Havana

Our Man in Havana
  • Author(s): Graham Greene
  • Location(s): Havana
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Pre revolutionary Havana, where anything can be obtained by means. Greene skewers British Intelligence. James Wormold is a mild-mannered, marginal businessman and vacuum cleaner salesman, is approached by MI6 and is unwillingly recruited as “Our Man in Havana”. As...

Queen of Bones (A Havana Mystery Book 2)

Queen of Bones (A Havana Mystery Book 2)
  • Author(s): Teresa Dovalpage
  • Location(s): Havana
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Set between Cubas twenty years apart, Havana native Teresa Dovalpage’s new murder mystery explores lingering grudges between old friends and lovers separated by Castro’s final sanctioned raft exodus. Juan, a Cuban construction worker who has settled in Albuquerque, returns...

Revolution Sunday

Revolution Sunday
  • Author(s): Wendy Guerra
  • Location(s): Cuba (Republic of), Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Cleo, scion of a once-prominent Cuban family and a promising young writer in her own right, travels to Spain to collect a prestigious award. There, Cuban expats view her with suspicion assuming she’s an informant for the Castro regime....

Rum, Cigars, and Corpses

Rum, Cigars, and Corpses
  • Author(s): Jerold Last
  • Location(s): Cuba (Republic of)
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Suspense, Thriller
  • Era(s): Present

After more than half a century U.S. citizens can once again visit Cuba. What’s it like? Rum, Cigars, and Corpses, available from Amazon Kindle in both paperback and e-book formats, has the answer. This suspenseful mystery was inspired when...

Souls in Exile

Souls in Exile
  • Author(s): Nick Padron
  • Location(s): Havana, Florida Keys, Haiti, Miami, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Short Stories
  • Era(s): 20th Century

A collection of short fiction in which settings are another character and numerous, the Florida Keys, northern Haiti, Havana, New York, and others.

Telex From Cuba

Telex From Cuba
  • Author(s): Rachel Kushner
  • Location(s): Cuba (Republic of)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

Set in Cuba just before Castro’s revolution, the novel tells the story of expatriates, most of whom work for the United Fruit Company. It is a coming of age story of two young people in the American colony in...

Ten Steps from the Hotel Inglaterra

Ten Steps from the Hotel Inglaterra
  • Location(s): Cuba (Republic of)
  • Era(s): Modern

A romantic travel adventure in Cuba. Charlie is a great character

The Book of Havana (Reading the City)

The Book of Havana (Reading the City)
  • Location(s): Havana
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Various

When a history teacher decides to throw out an old, threadbare Cuban flag, he doesn’t plan for the air of suspicion that quickly descends on him… A woman’s attempt to register ownership of her family home draws her into...

The Crook Factory

The Crook Factory
  • Author(s): Dan Simmons
  • Location(s): Cuba (Republic of)
  • Era(s): 1930s

The Cuban Scar

The Cuban Scar
  • Author(s): Gabriel Hemingway, Nick Padron
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Cuba (Republic of)
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): 1970-1980s

Inspired by factual events, The Cuban Scar begins when a young New York musician, Nelson Montes, discovers a videotape recording made by his deceased father detailing his participation in the John F. Kennedy assassination, “The greatest unsolved crime of...

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