Havana Gold: The Havana Quartet

Compliment for the Havana Quartet:

“Havana pink, one other winner from sour Lemon Press. ”—The big apple 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 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 enthusiasts of mysteries of alternative cultures, it's going to additionally attract 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 overwhelmed, raped, after which strangled with a towel. Marijuana is located in her residence and her cloth wardrobe is suspiciously past the technique of a highschool instructor. Lieutenant Conde is careworn by way of “the optimum authority” to finish this research quick whilst probability leads him into the palms of a pretty redhead, a saxophone participant who stocks his love for jazz and battling fi sh.

This is a Havana of crumbling, grand constructions, secrets and techniques hidden in the back of light 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 good 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 prior to Christmas, an immigrant road seller is killed in Venice's Campo Santo Stefano. the closest witnesses to the development are the travelers who have been searching the man's wares sooner than his loss of life -- faux purses of each fashion designer label -- yet they've got obvious not anything that will be of a lot support to the police.

Beastly Things (Commissario Brunetti, Book 21)

While the physique of guy is located in a canal, broken by means of the tides, wearing no pockets, and donning just one shoe, Brunetti has little to paintings with. No neighborhood has filed a missing-person document, and no lodge site visitors have disappeared. the place used to be the crime scene? and the way can Brunetti establish the guy whilst he can’t exhibit photographs 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. 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 understand that made somebody kill him? .. .. input Adam Dalgliesh, leader inspector of Scotland backyard. Dalgliesh seems at humans and occasions clinically.