*Set between Cubas twenty years apart, Havana native Teresa Dovalpageβs latest novel features an unusual detectiveβan ex-cop turned SanterΓa priest and a familiar face from her critically acclaimed crime fiction debut, Death Comes in through the Kitchen *
Padrino, a former detective on the Cuban police force, has retired and found a new, happy life as a SanterΓa priest. But he is drawn back in for a murder investigation when his goddaughter, Rosita, who works at the local cemetery, recognizes one of the bodies that crosses her embalming table.
Meanwhile, an old flame of Rositaβs, Juan, has returned to Cuba after fleeing by raft twenty years ago. He is with his American wife, Sharon, and has come back to catch up with his old college circleβVictor, his estranged best friend, and unbeknownst to Sharon, his most serious ex-girlfriend, Elsa, with whom he never quite fell out of love.
When murder occurs within this group, it will cost Padrino more than he expects to untangle everyoneβs lies and track down the killer.