Facing discontentment in her thirties, Margarita finds herself falling back in love with a college flame, a situation that compromises her marriage and forces her to choose between her family and the passion of her life.

One Hot Summer

Literature & Fiction

Garcia-Aguilera, Carolina

United States

Rayo

Hired to confirm reports of a pending "miracle" in Miami, Lupe Solano ventures into the Cuban-American community in search of answers to a sacred mystery and a killer who has just left a body on the city's streets. Reprint.

A Miracle in Paradise: A Lupe Solano Mystery

Contemporary

AVON.

Havana Heat: A Lupe Solano Mystery

When Miami P.I. Lupe Solano overhears a mysterious conversation at a posh dinner party, she finds herself drawn into a hunt for a legendary masterpiece, the eighth Unicorn Tapestry, a piece of art that someone will do anything, even murder, to possess. Reprint.

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

The dearest friend of Lupe Solana's beloved "Papi," Ramón Suarez was the owner of a prosperous sugar mill back in Cuba until Castro forced him into exile. Now an unnamed Spanish source wants to purchase the confiscated property at a fraction of its true value. Suarez wants the sexy, smart, hot-tempered South Florida P.I. to find out why, but Ramon's lazy, no-good nephew Alexander just wants to take the money and run. Then Alexander is found brutally slain in a sleazy Miami hotel -- his last known visitor, Tío Ramón, accused of murder. Lupe's routine journey down a paper trail now turns into something darker and more twisted, entangling her in a mysterious web of spun sugar and blood that will bring bullets smashing through her window and death to her door.

Bitter Sugar: A Lupe Solano Mystery

Genre Fiction

The Order of the Illumination of the Sacred Virgin is predicting a major miracle, and Lupe Solano has been hired to verify the event, but his investigation into spiritual matters soon uncovers criminal behavior behind the convent's cloistered walls. 15,000 first printing.

A Miracle in Paradise: A Lupe Solano Mystery (Lupe Solano Mysteries)

William Morrow

Miami P.I. Lupe Solano overhears a conversation and finds herself drawn into a hunt for a legendary masterpiece, the eighth Unicorn Tapestry, a piece of art that someone is willing to kill for.

Private property was stolen and livelihoods destroyed in the wake of Castro's Cuban revolution, breeding bitterness and rage-which in turn breed murder.Bitter SugarSexy, smart, and hot-tempered, Lupe Solano is arguably the best private investigator in Miami -- though her father would be much happier had she chosen a safer career. So Lupe is thrown a curve when her beloved "Papi" asks her for professional help.
Senor Solano's old friend Ramon Suarez owned a prosperous sugar mill back in Cuba until Castro nationalized the property and forced him and his family into exile. Now, years later, an unnamed source in Spain is offering to purchase the confiscated property at a fraction of its value. Lazy, no-good nephew Alexander Suarez wants the money. Tio Ramon is suspicious and wants to know what's behind this sudden interest in a nonproducing sugar mill.
What starts as a routine journey down a paper trail soon turns deadly when Alexander is found brutally slain in a sleazy Miami hotel -- and his last known visitor, Tio Ramon, is accused of the murder. Suddenly Lupe has a killer to unmask if she's going to prove Papi's dearest friend innocent.
But Lupe is rapidly becoming entangled in the mysterious web of spun sugar and blood that captured and killed Alexander. And when bullets smash through her own window, she begins to wonder if maybe Papi was right all along. But stubborn honor -- and anger -- compel her to continue with her investigation, even if what she turns up rocks her world, her family, and the entire Miami Cuban community to its very foundations.

Hired by adoptive parents to find the biological mother of an illegally adopted, terminally ill child, Cuban-American private eye Lupe Solano soon finds herself plunged into the heart of a perilous and potentially lethal case. A first novel. 17,500 first printing.

Bloody Waters (Lupe Solano Mysteries)

Putnam Adult

The star of Bloody Waters, Cuban-American private eye Lupe Solano returns in her second case, in which she tries to plumb the connection between the death of her best friend and that of a Cuban rafter.

Bloody Shame (Lupe Solano Mysteries)

Miami private detective Lupe Solano comes to the aid of a young refugee from Havana, who claims that Miami's most prominent couple has robbed his family and has arranged for his own murder.

Bloody Secrets (Lupe Solano Mysteries)

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One Hot Summer

A Miracle in Paradise: A Lupe Solano Mystery

Havana Heat: A Lupe Solano Mystery

Bitter Sugar: A Lupe Solano Mystery

A Miracle in Paradise: A Lupe Solano Mystery (Lupe Solano Mysteries)

Havana Heat: A Lupe Solano Mystery

Bitter Sugar: A Lupe Solano Mystery

Bloody Waters (Lupe Solano Mysteries)

Bloody Shame (Lupe Solano Mysteries)

Bloody Secrets (Lupe Solano Mysteries)