Havana Gold: The Havana Quartet

Compliment for the Havana Quartet:

“Havana crimson, one other winner from sour Lemon Press. ”—The manhattan 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 finally concerning the redemptive nature of timeless friendship and the doubtless harmful nature of timeless love. ”—The Atlantic Monthly

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

The fourth name of the prize-winning Havana Quartet.

Twenty-four-year-old Lissette Delgado was once crushed, raped, after which strangled with a towel. Marijuana is located in her condominium and her dresser is suspiciously past the technique of a highschool instructor. Lieutenant Conde is stressed through “the optimum authority” to finish this research fast while probability leads him into the hands 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 constructions, secrets and techniques hidden in the back of pale doorways, and corruption. For an writer residing in Cuba, Leonardo Padura is remarkably outspoken concerning the failings of Fidel Castro’s regime. but this can be a eulogy of Cuba, its lifetime of track, 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 presently earlier than Christmas, an immigrant highway seller is killed in Venice's Campo Santo Stefano. the closest witnesses to the development are the travelers who were searching the man's wares earlier than his loss of life -- faux purses of each fashion designer label -- yet they've got noticeable not anything that will 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 by way of the tides, sporting 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 express photographs of his face?

Death of an Expert Witness (Adam Dalgliesh Mysteries 6)

Books on Tape- Collector's version- nine- ninety min tapes. An Adam Dalgliesh secret. whilst Dr Lorrimer performed scientist, he was once chilly and cold. whilst he performed corpse, he used to be chilly and bloody. What did he be aware of that made a person kill him? .. .. input Adam Dalgliesh, leader inspector of Scotland backyard. Dalgliesh seems at humans and occasions clinically.