Leonardo Padura
2) Heretics
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"A sweeping novel of art theft, anti-Semitism, contemporary Cuba, and crime from a renowned Cuban author. In 1939, the Saint Louis sails from Hamburg into Havana's port with hundreds of Jewish refugees seeking asylum from the Nazi regime. From the docks, nine-year-old Daniel Kaminsky watches as the passengers, including his mother, father, and sister, become embroiled in a fiasco of Cuban corruption. But the Kaminskys have a treasure that they hope...
3) Havana fever
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Mario Conde mysteries volume 6
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Scorching novel from a star of Cuban fiction. The return of Mario Conde.
4) Havana gold
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Mario Conde mysteries volume 2
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Scorching novel from a star of Cuban fiction. The fourth of the Havana Quartet series.
5) Havana red
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Mario Conde mysteries volume 3
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A young transvestite found strangled in a Havana park. The stifling death of a beloved Cuba.
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Havanna, 27. Mai 1939: Die MS St. Louis fährt im Hafen ein. An Bord: 937 jüdische Flüchtlinge aus Deutschland. Daniel Kaminsky wartet an Land auf Eltern und Schwester. Doch die Einreise wird allen verweigert, das Schiff fährt zurück nach Europa. Amsterdam, 1648: Elias, ein Schüler Rembrandts, wird vom mächtigen Rabbinerrat aufgrund seiner Malerleidenschaft aus der Stadt verstoßen. Der Meister selbst gibt ihm sein Porträt mit auf den Weg ins...
7) Havana Blue
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Mario Conde mysteries volume 1
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A scorching novel from a star of Cuban fiction. The third in the Havana Quartet series.
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Mario Conde mysteries volume 7
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Mario Conde investigates a murder in the Barrio Chino, the rundown Chinatown of Havana. Not his usual beat, but when Conde was asked to take the case by his colleague, the sultry, perfectly proportioned Lieutenant Patricia Chion, a frequent object of his nightly fantasies, he couldn't resist. The case proves to be unusual. Pedro Cuang, a lonely old man, is found hanging naked from a beam in the ceiling of his dingy room. One of his fingers has been...
9) Havana Black
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Mario Conde mysteries volume 4
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Scorching novel from a star of Cuban fiction. Second Conde mystery set in languid Havana.
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Mario Conde mysteries volume 9
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Mario Conde is facing down his sixtieth birthday. What does he have to show for his decades on the planet? A failing body, a slower mind, and a decrepit country, in which both the ideals and failures of the Cuban Revolution are being swept away in favor of a new and newly cosmopolitan worship of money.
Rescue comes in the form of a new case: an old Marxist turned flamboyant practitioner of Santería appears on the scene to engage Conde to track down...