Havana Gold: The Havana Quartet

Compliment for the Havana Quartet:

“Havana pink, 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 damaging nature of timeless love. ”—The Atlantic Monthly

“Drenched with that beguiling otherness so beautiful to lovers of mysteries of different cultures, it is going to additionally attract those that relish 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 condo and her cloth cabinet is suspiciously past the technique of a highschool instructor. Lieutenant Conde is harassed by means of “the optimum authority” to finish this research quick while likelihood leads him into the fingers of a pretty 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 in 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 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 presently sooner than 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 shopping the man's wares sooner than his dying -- faux purses of each clothier label -- yet they've got obvious 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 through the tides, sporting no pockets, and donning just one shoe, Brunetti has little to paintings with. No neighborhood has filed a missing-person file, and no inn visitors have disappeared. the place used to be the crime scene? and the way can Brunetti determine the fellow while he can’t express images 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 used to be chilly and cold. whilst he performed corpse, he was once chilly and bloody. What did he recognize that made somebody kill him? .. .. input Adam Dalgliesh, leader inspector of Scotland backyard. Dalgliesh appears to be like at humans and occasions clinically.