Bloody Secrets: A Lupe Solano Mystery, by Garcia-Aguilero, Carolina
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Bloody Secrets: A Lupe Solano Mystery, by Garcia-Aguilero, Carolina. G.P. Putnam's Sons: New York, 1998. Edition: First Edition. ISBN: 0399143866. Hardcover, 274 pages. Quarter bound in black over red paper-covered boards; gilt lettering on spine. Jacket a pictorial sunset over water with title lettering in green.

Condition: Book: Very Good. Lower spine bumped; light smudging on lower corner page edges. A small inked "K" on the first free end-paper. Jacket: Very Good. Dark areas show rubbing from being shelved.

Contents: From the jacket

In what is the most ambitious Lupe Solano mystery yet, Carolina Garcia-Aguilera takes readers from Batista's Havana, during the last days of the aristocrats, to present-day high-society Miami, by way of the Guantanamo Bay refugee center. In BLOOD SECRETS, Lupe Solano returns to work the case of a balsero -- a refugee who escaped Cuba by raft. Although Lupe doesn't accept clients without a reference, she is intrigued by Luis's story: a drifter living in a flophouse in a dangerous neighborhood, he claims that one of Miami's prominent Cuban couples has swindled his family out of their fortune and arranged for his murder.

Lupe is instantly drawn to Luis, who appears to be more interested in his family's honor than in the money that is rightfully his. She finds that she can't push him from her mind -- brought up by a once aristocratic mother whose husband died in Castro's prison, he is the sort of many she might have ended up with had her family not succeeded in leaving Cuba in the first wave of immigration in the 1960s. But Luis's case is far more complicated than Lupe anticipates, when innocent people are killed, and when she finds that her feelings for her client are more than professional.