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Feminist Mystery Reviews BLOODY SECRETS Reviewed by Harriet Klausner Cuban Luis Delgado wants to hire Miami private investigator Lupe Solano to investigate the eminent de la Torre family. Luis insists that the family patriarch swindled his father out of a fortune back in 1958 when both tried to flee Batista's Cuba and the onset of the Castro revolution. Luis' father went to prison where he died while de la Torre went on the becoming a popular patron of the South Florida arts. Lupe finds herself attracted to Luis, who recently escaped from Cuba. In spite of her normal policy of rejecting off the street cases, she agrees to conduct an investigation. Soon, the straight forward case turns nasty as seemingly innocent people are killed. Revenge within the Cuban-American community seems to be the order of the day and if Lupe is not careful she could be its next victim. The third Lupe Solano novel continues to have the freshness that made its two predecessors (BLOODY WATERS and BLOODY SHAME) remarkably insightful and compelling novels. The story line, built around the exiled Cuban community is superb and loaded with action and insight into the exile culture. Lupe remains a top rate private investigator who despite her human fralities always gets the job done. However, it is late 1950's Havana and modern South Beach and the remaining surrounding South Florida Cuban communities that turn Carolina Garcia-Aguilera's novel into a delightful reading experience.
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