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Next Year in Havana

Next Year in Havana
  • Author(s): Chanel Cleeton
  • Location(s): Cuba (Republic of), Havana
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1958 onwards

Havana, 1958. The daughter of a sugar baron, nineteen-year-old Elisa Perez is part of Cuba’s high society, where she is largely sheltered from the country’s growing political unrest – until she embarks on a clandestine affair with a passionate...

If The Dead Rise Not

If The Dead Rise Not
  • Author(s): Philip Kerr
  • Location(s): Berlin, Havana
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1930s to 1950s

Berlin 1934. The Nazis have been in power for just eighteen months but already Germany has seen some frightening changes. As the city prepares to host the 1936 Olympics, Jews are being expelled from all German sporting organisations –...

Last Seen in Havana (A Havana Mystery Book 5)

Last Seen in Havana (A Havana Mystery Book 5)
  • Author(s): Teresa Dovalpage
  • Location(s): Havana
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Current. 1980 and 2020

Newly widowed baker Mercedes Spivey flies from Miami to her native Cuba in 2019 to care for her ailing paternal grandmother. Mercedes’s life has been shaped by loss, beginning with the mysterious unsolved disappearance of her mother when Mercedes...

Cuba and the Night

Cuba and the Night
  • Author(s): Pico Iyer
  • Location(s): Havana
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

This is the love story between an international photojournalist and a young Cuban woman, as seen through the photographer’s eyes, the complexities of a relationship in the broadest sense, and life in Cuba.

Death under the Perseids (A Havana Mystery Book 4)

Death under the Perseids (A Havana Mystery Book 4)
  • Author(s): Teresa Dovalpage
  • Location(s): Havana
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

There’s no such thing as a free cruise in Cuban American author Teresa Dovalpage’s addictively clever new Havana mystery. Cuban-born Mercedes Spivey and her American husband, Nolan, win a five-day cruise to Cuba. Although the circumstances surrounding the prize...

Havana

Havana
  • Author(s): Stephen Hunter
  • Location(s): Havana
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1950s

A pacy thriller in 1950s Havana, drawing the reader into the complexities of Cuban life, and economic and political mele.

Havana Bay

Havana Bay
  • Author(s): Martin Cruz Smith
  • Location(s): Havana
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 20th Century

Former Inspector for the Moscow Militsiya, Arkady Renko, is summoned to Cuba to identify a liquefying corpse, dragged from the oily waters of Havana Bay. Renko finds himself in a decaying country, the final recess of Communism – a...

Havana Fever

Havana Fever
  • Author(s): Leonardo Padura
  • Location(s): Havana
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2003

This author is known as Leonardo Padura Fuentes in Cuba. The story starts Havana, the year 2003 – 14 years since Mario Conde retired from the police force and much has changed in Cuba. Now an antique book trader,...

King of Cuba

King of Cuba
  • Author(s): Cristina Garcia
  • Location(s): Havana, Miami
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern looking back

El Comandante, an aging Castro-like dictator shambles about his mansion in Havana, visits a dying friend, tortures hunger strikers in one of his prisons, and grapples with the stale end of his life that is as devoid of grandeur...

Last Dance in Havana

Last Dance in Havana
  • Author(s): Rosanna Ley
  • Location(s): Bristol, Havana
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s and 2012

Cuba, 1958. Elisa is only sixteen years old when she meets Duardo and she knows he’s the love of her life from the moment they first dance the rumba together in downtown Havana. But Duardo is a rebel, determined to...

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