Teresa Dovalpage

A Cuban Mystery

1 - Death Comes in Through the Kitchen (Mar-2018)
2 - Queen of Bones (Nov-2019)
3 - Death of a Telenovela Star (Jun-2021)
4 - Death under the Perseids (Dec-2021)
5 - Last Seen in Havana (Feb-2024)

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  The Astral Plane: Stories of Cuba, the Southwest and Beyond
  

  • Mar-2012
  • / General Fiction
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  Loud-mouthed, funny and insightful, Dovalpage takes the reader for a trip from the streets of Havana to a New Mexican town. Some stories flirt with magic realism; others explore love affairs gone wrong. A Cuban teenager suddenly goes from using ratio...

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  Death Comes in Through the Kitchen
  

  • Mar-2018
  • / Suspense
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  A Cuban Mystery - 1
  

  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, ...

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  Queen of Bones
  

  • Nov-2019
  • / Mystery
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  A Cuban Mystery - 2
  

  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 h...

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  Death of a Telenovela Star
  

  • Jun-2021
  • / Police Procedural
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  A Cuban Mystery - 3
  

  Teresa Dovalpage’s deliciously twisted novella, set on a Caribbean cruise, showcases the dark -- sometimes deadly -- side of celebrity.   Former Havana detective Marlene Martínez, now happily running a bakery in Miami, has booked a week-long ...

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  Death under the Perseids
  

  • Dec-2021
  • / Mystery
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  A Cuban Mystery - 4
  

  There’s no such thing as a free cruise in Cuban American author Teresa Dovalpage's addictively clever new Havana mystery.Cuban-born Mercedes Spivey and her American husband, Nolan, win a five-day cruise to Cuba. Although the circumstances surroundi...

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  Last Seen in Havana
  

  • Feb-2024
  • / Mystery
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  A Cuban Mystery - 5
  

  A Cuban American woman searches for her long-lost mother and fights to restore a beautiful but crumbling Art Deco home in the heart of Havana in this moving, immersive new mystery, perfect for fans of Of Women and Salt.Newly widowed baker Mercedes Sp...

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  The Novel Detective
  

  • Jul-2026
  • / Police Procedural
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  A metafictional mystery set in Cuba past and present about a writer returning to her long-lost hometown, seeking the truth about two suspicious deaths2020: Teresa, a fifty-something Cuban-born mystery writer living in New Mexico, gets an unexpected c...

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