Mario Conde mysteries

A scorching novel from a star of Cuban fiction. The third in the Havana Quartet series.

"The first of the Havana quartet [to be translated into English] featuring Lieutenant Mario Conde, a tropical Marlowe. A body is found in a Havana park. A young transvestite dressed in a beautiful red evening dress, strangled. The victim had fled his family, finding refuge with Marque¿¿s, an author living alone surrounded only by books, his house in ruins. In the baking heat of the Havana summer Conde investigates, moving through a Cuban reality...

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...

"From Leonardo Padura - whose crime novels featuring Detective Mario Conde form the basis of Netflix's Four Seasons in Havana - The Transparency of Time sees the Cuban investigator pursuing a mystery spanning centuries of occult history"--