Blogs in November 2024

Grab a Snake by the Tail 7th November 2024

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...

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Death Comes in through the Kitchen (A Havana Mystery Book 1) 20th December 2023

Don’t let the authentic Cuban recipes fool you: This is no cozy mystery. Set in Havana during the Black Spring of 2003, a charming but poison-laced culinary mystery reveals the darker side of the modern Revolution. Matt, a San...

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Last Seen in Havana (A Havana Mystery Book 5) 16th November 2023

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...

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Queen of Bones (A Havana Mystery Book 2) 3rd July 2021

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...

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Death of a Telenovela Star (A Novella) (A Havana Mystery Book 3) 3rd July 2021

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...

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