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A
Cuban American woman searches for her long-lost mother and fights to
restore a beautiful but crumbling Art Deco home in the heart of
Havana in this moving, immersive new mystery, perfect for fans of Of
Women and Salt.
Last
Seen in Havana
A
Havana Mystery Book 4
by
Teresa Dovalpage
Genre:
Mystery
A
Cuban American woman searches for her long-lost mother and fights to
restore a beautiful but crumbling Art Deco home in the heart of
Havana in this moving, immersive new mystery, perfect for fans of Of
Women and Salt.
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 was a little girl.
Returning to Cuba revives Mercedes’s hopes of finding her mother as
she attempts to piece together the few scraps of information
she has. Could her mother still be alive?
Thirty-three
years earlier, in 1986, an American college student with endless
political optimism falls deliriously in love with a handsome Cuban
soldier while on a spontaneous visit to the island. She decides to
stay permanently, but soon discovers that nothing is as it seems
in Havana.
The two women’s stories proceed in
parallel as Mercedes gets closer to the truth about her mother,
uncovering shocking family secrets in the process . . .
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Death
Under the Perseids
A
Havana Mystery
(Prequel
to Last Seen in Havana)
There’s
no such thing as a free cruise in Cuban American author Teresa
Dovalpage's addictively clever new Havana mystery.
Cuban-born
Mercedes Spivey and her American husband, Nolan, win a five-day
cruise to Cuba. Although the circumstances surrounding the prize seem
a little suspicious to Mercedes, Nolan’s current unemployment and
their need to spice up their marriage make the decision a no-brainer.
Once aboard, Mercedes is surprised to see two people she met through
her ex-boyfriend Lorenzo: former University of Havana professor Selfa
Segarra and down-on-his-luck Spanish writer Javier Jurado. Even
stranger: they also received a free cruise.
When Selfa
disappears on their first day at sea, Mercedes and Javier begin to
wonder if their presence on the cruise is more than coincidence.
Mercedes confides her worries to her husband, but he convinces her
that it’s all in her head.
However, when Javier dies
under mysterious circumstances after disembarking in Havana, and
Nolan is nowhere to be found, Mercedes scrambles through the city
looking for him, fearing her suspicions were correct all along.
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Writer,
translator and college professor, Teresa Dovalpage is a Cuban
transplant firmly rooted in New Mexico. She is the author of twelve
novels, among them the Havana Mystery series, three short story
collections and four theater plays. She lives with her husband, one
dog and too many barn cats.
Her website is: http://teredovalpage.com
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The Ashen Hour
At the ashen hour, that peculiar time of the day when night hasn’t fallen yet but you can’t see the edge of things, when the whole world seems to have gone underwater, my mother sometimes came to me. It wasn’t a dream, for I kept my eyes open the whole time, nor a childhood fantasy. It was a betwixt and between state, a rip in the fabric of reality, the glimpse of a mirage.
I remember one evening when the house felt quieter and emptier than usual. The blue glare of the television was the only light in the living room. I tiptoed outside and sat in the backyard under a mango tree while Mamina, my grandmother, busied herself in the kitchen. She was making congr×black beans and rice, cooked together, with cumin and tiny pieces of bacon. I smelled fried chicken too (fried in lard, of course!) and my mouth watered.
I was getting hungry but soon forgot about the food. My mother approached quietly, her feet not quite touching the gravel path. I looked up and knew instantly that it was her, though I could not remember her face.
“¡Mamá!”
She knelt by my side and caressed my hair. A smell of roses engulfed me. I waited for her to explain those years of absence, to apologize and say that she loved me. But Mamina’s voice always broke the spell.
“Merceditas, where are you?”
My mother never came. The ghost of my nine-year-old self stayed under the tree, waiting for her.
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This sounds like a good mystery series.
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