Havana Gold: The Havana Quartet

Compliment for the Havana Quartet:

“Havana crimson, one other winner from sour Lemon Press. ”—The long island Times

“Overlaid with a wealthy smoky patina, an environment that reeks of slums and riches, cigar smoke and unique perfumes. ”—The Independent

“Talk approximately unforeseen discoveries, the Havana Quartet is a revelation. With a nod to Key Largo and a digital bow to The Maltese Falcon, those novels are eventually in regards to the redemptive nature of timeless friendship and the doubtless damaging nature of timeless love. ”—The Atlantic Monthly

“Drenched with that beguiling otherness so beautiful to enthusiasts of mysteries of different cultures, it is going to additionally entice those that take pleasure in the sultry lyricism of James Lee Burke. ”—Booklist

The fourth identify of the prize-winning Havana Quartet.

Twenty-four-year-old Lissette Delgado was once overwhelmed, raped, after which strangled with a towel. Marijuana is located in her house and her cloth cabinet is suspiciously past the technique of a highschool instructor. Lieutenant Conde is stressed through “the optimum authority” to finish this research speedy while probability leads him into the fingers of an attractive redhead, a saxophone participant who stocks his love for jazz and scuffling with fi sh.

This is a Havana of crumbling, grand structures, secrets and techniques hidden at the back of light doorways, and corruption. For an writer dwelling in Cuba, Leonardo Padura is remarkably outspoken in regards to the failings of Fidel Castro’s regime. but this can be a eulogy of Cuba, its lifetime of song, intercourse, and the nice friendships of these who elected to stick and struggle for survival.

Blood From a Stone (Commissario Brunetti, Book 14)

On a chilly evening almost immediately sooner than Christmas, an immigrant highway seller is killed in Venice's Campo Santo Stefano. the closest witnesses to the development are the travelers who have been shopping the man's wares prior to his loss of life -- pretend purses of each dressmaker label -- yet they've got noticeable not anything that would be of a lot aid to the police.

Beastly Things (Commissario Brunetti, Book 21)

Whilst the physique of guy is located in a canal, broken via the tides, wearing no pockets, and donning just one shoe, Brunetti has little to paintings with. No neighborhood has filed a missing-person record, and no inn site visitors have disappeared. the place was once the crime scene? and the way can Brunetti establish the fellow while he can’t convey images of his face?

Death of an Expert Witness (Adam Dalgliesh Mysteries 6)

Books on Tape- Collector's variation- nine- ninety min tapes. An Adam Dalgliesh secret. while Dr Lorrimer performed scientist, he used to be chilly and cold. while he performed corpse, he was once chilly and bloody. What did he comprehend that made an individual kill him? .. .. input Adam Dalgliesh, leader inspector of Scotland backyard. Dalgliesh appears to be like at humans and occasions clinically.