Don’t let the authentic Cuban recipes fool you: This is no cozy mystery. Set in Havana during the Black Spring of 2003, a charming but poison-laced culinary mystery reveals the darker side of the modern Revolution.
Matt, a San Diego journalist, arrives in Havana to marry his girlfriend, Yarmila, a 24-year-old Cuban woman whom he first met through her food blog. But Yarmi isn’t there to meet him at the airport, and when he hitches a ride to her apartment, he finds her lying dead in the bathtub.With Yarmi’s murder, lovelorn Matt is immediately embroiled in a Cuban adventure he didn’t bargain for. The police and secret service have him down as their main suspect, and in an effort to clear his name, he must embark on his own investigation into what really happened. The more Matt learns about his erstwhile fiancée, though, the more he realizes he had no idea who she was at all—but did anyone?
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Discussion questions
My Book, The Movie
Campaign for the American reader. Page 69 test.
6 Questions with Teresa Dovalpage. Joan Livingston’s blog,
A podcast with Kase Johnstun: Author & Banyan Collective Podcaster.
Reviews
Latin American Literature Today
Mysteristas
Publishers Weekly
Review on The Taos News
LitFlits
Kingdom Books. Tasting Cuba.
Reviewing the Evidence
Hispanic Heritage Month picks. Random House.
A Cook and two Books. Event at Monona Public Library.
Cozy Con at The Poisoned Pen.
Writers Read. At Campaign for the American reader. What I was reading a while ago.
My Book. The Movie.
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