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A San Diego journalist, Matt arrives in Havana to marry his girlfriend, a 24-year-old Cuban woman whom he met through her food blog. When she isn't there to meet him at the airport, he hitches a ride to her apartment and finds her dead in the bathtub. Now the main suspect, Matt embarks on his own investigation to clear his name. Set in Havana during the Black Spring of 2003, this charming but poison-laced culinary mystery reveals the darker side of the modern Revolution, complete with authentic Cuban recipes.
About the Author
Teresa Dovalpage was born in Havana and now lives in Hobbs, where she is a Spanish and ESL professor at New Mexico Junior College.She has published nine novels and three collections of short stories. Her English-language novels are A Girl like Che Guevara (Soho Press, 2004) , Habanera, a Portrait of a Cuban Family (Floricanto Press, 2010) , and Death Comes in Through the Kitchen (Soho Crime, 2018) , a culinary mystery with authentic Cuban recipes.Her novellas Las Muertas de la West Mesa (The West Mesa Murders, based on a real event) , Sisters in Tea/ Hermanas en Té and Death by Smartphone/ Muerte por Smartphone were published in serialized format by Taos News.In her native Spanish she has authored the novels Muerte de un murciano en La Habana (Death of a Murcian in Havana, Anagrama, 2006, a runner-up for the Herralde Award in Spain) , El difunto Fidel (The late Fidel, Renacimiento, 2011, that won the Rincon de la Victoria Award in Spain in 2009) , Posesas de La Habana (Haunted ladies of Havana, PurePlay Press, 2004) , La Regenta en La Habana (Edebe Group, Spain, 2012) , Orfeo en el Caribe (Atmósfera Literaria, Spain, 2013) , and El retorno de la expatriada (The Expat's Return, Egales, Spain, 2014) .
