Deze serie volgt de onderzoeken van een sceptische en gedesillusioneerde luitenant, die vaak in zaken wordt meegesleept die hem dwingen de donkerdere kanten van de Cubaanse samenleving en zijn eigen verleden onder ogen te zien. Elke onderzoek onthult lagen van corruptie, verloren idealen en persoonlijke drama's. Het detectivewerk is doordrenkt van melancholie, poëzie en een diep begrip van de menselijke natuur. Duik in een wereld vol dubbelzinnige personages en een onvergetelijke sfeer.
Literaire misdaadroman uit Havana
Een Cubaanse politieman moet de verdwijning onderzoeken van een hoge ambtenaar en ontdekt daarbij dat hun gemeenschappelijke verleden nog steeds doorwerkt in het heden.
En los infernales días de la primavera cubana en que llegan los vientos calientes del sur, coincidiendo con la Cuaresma, al teniente Mario Conde, que acaba de conocer a Karina, una mujer bella y deslumbrante, aficionada al jazz y al saxo, le encargan una delicada investigación. Una joven profesora de química del mismo preuniversitario donde años atrás estudió el Conde ha aparecido asesinada en su apartamento, en el que aparecen además restos de marihuana. Así, al investigar la vida de la profesora, de impoluto expediente académico y político, el Conde entra en un mundo en descomposición, donde el arribismo, el tráfico de influencias, el consumo de drogas y el fraude revelan el lado oscuro de la sociedad cubana contemporánea. Paralelamente, el policía, enamorado de la bella e inesperada mujer, vive días de gloria sin imaginar el demoledor desenlace de esa historia de amor.
A young transvestite is found strangled in a Havana park. Mario Conde's first investigation into a young man's violent murder exposes the equally disturbing death of his beloved Cuba.
A brutally mutilated body is discovered washed up in the bay of Havana. The body of Miguel Forcade Mier, head smashed in by a baseball bat, genitals cut off by a dull knife. Forcade, once an official in the Cuban government responsible for the confiscation of the belongings of the bourgeoisie fleeing the revolution, was an exile in Miami.
A classic detective story that explores the last years of Hemingway's life, evoking both Cuba and this giant of American letters with enormous skill and wit.
Havana, 2003, 14 since Mario Conde retired from the police force and much has changed in Cuba. He makes a living trading in antique books bought from families selling off their libraries in order to survive. In the house of Alcides de Montes de Oca, a rich Cuban who fled after the fall of Batista, Conde discovers an extraordinary book collection.
In this new crime title from Padura, Cuba's most celebrated living author, Police InspectorMario Conde investigates a murder in the Barrio Chino, the rundown Chinatown of Havana.
"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 will save them: a small Rembrandt portrait of Christ. Yet six days later the vessel is forced to leave the harbor with the family, bound for the horrors of Europe. The Kaminskys, along with their priceless heirloom, disappear. Nearly seven decades later, the Rembrandt reappears in an auction house in London, prompting Daniel's son to travel to Cuba to track down the story of his family's lost masterpiece"-- Provided by publisher
Cuban investigator Mario Conde pursues a mystery spanning centuries of occult history. He is asked to track down a stolen statue of the Virgen de Regla-a black Madonna. A quest that spans twenty-first century Havana as well as the distant past, as he delves as far back as the Crusades in an attempt to uncover the true provenance of the statue.