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Queen of Bones

✍ Scribed by Teresa Dovalpage

Publisher
Soho Press
Year
2019
Tongue
en-US
Weight
141 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN
1641290161

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✦ Synopsis

Set between Cubas twenty years apart, Havana native Teresa Dovalpage's new murder mystery explores lingering grudges between old friends and lovers separated by Castro's final sanctioned raft exodus.

Juan, a Cuban construction worker who has settled in Albuquerque, returns to Havana for the first time since fleeing Cuba by raft twenty years ago. He is traveling with his American wife, Sharon, and hopes to reconnect with Victor, his best friend from collegeβ€”and, unbeknownst to Sharon, he also hopes to discover what has become of two ex-girlfriends, Elsa and Rosita.

Juan is surprised to learn that Victor has become Victoria and runs a popular drag show at the local hot spot CafΓ© Arabia. Elsa has married a wealthy foreigner, and Rosita, still single, works at the Havana cemetery. When one of these women turns up dead, it will cost Padrino, a SanterΓ­a priest and former detective on the Havana police force, more than he expects to untangle...

✦ Subjects

Mystery

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