Last Seen in Havana

A Havana Mystery, Book 4

De: Teresa Dovalpage

Narrado por: Cynthia Farrell

Newly widowed baker Mercedes Spivey flies from Miami to her native Cuba in 2019 to care for her ailing paternal grandmother. Mercedes’s life has been shaped by loss, beginning with the mysterious unsolved disappearance of her mother when Mercedes was a little girl. Returning to Cuba revives Mercedes’s hopes of finding her mother as she attempts to piece together the few scraps of information she has. Could her mother still be alive?

Thirty-three years earlier, in 1986, an American college student with endless political optimism falls deliriously in love with a handsome Cuban soldier while on a spontaneous visit to the island. She decides to stay permanently, but soon discovers that nothing is as it seems in Havana.

The two women’s stories proceed in parallel as Mercedes gets closer to the truth about her mother, uncovering shocking family secrets in the process …

©2024 Teresa Dovalpage (P)2024 Recorded Books

Last Seen In Havana

Did not finish this book Gave it 8 chapters. There were too many Spanish words.

This is my favorite book of all. . .

I have listened to all of Teresa Doval Page’s books, including the Novella, so far in this series and I have to say she is an artist! Some writers follow a plan or a script or a formula when writing their stories. If they are good, they made each story better or different but they still follow the formula as I like to say. But I think TDP has thrown out the formula and just written from the heart. She has made each story come to life in my head, behind my eyelids & when I have quiet moments, I put in my Beats and listen to the story. The reader is also just amazing. I will be looking for in other books too. I don’t want to miss a minute of the story. If someone’s interrupting me when I’m listening with only one Beat earbud in, and I can’t hear the book, I pause it. Not because I want to hear the person talking to me, but because I don’t want to miss a moment of her book! I want to listen to more of her work and I want to dive in and listen to everything three or four times, just to listen about Cuba, the people and how we all, no matter where we live, learn to make due or find a better way. I don’t know if she has any other work that is set other than in Cuba, but I look forward to hearing those books too.

And I just want to say that I don’t do many written reviews because I don’t have a lot of free time, but this author was worth the time to put in a review. Thank you, Teresa Doval Page.