Mario Conde: Pasado Perfecto (Hardcover)

from Hagelstein

Mario Conde is a Cuiban police lieutenant haunted by his desire - and failure - to write. He is investigating the disappearance of an old school-mate - the big man on campus that married the girl Conde also desired - and failed to get. The third mystery in Leonardo Padura Fuentes' series featurin...

from Hagelstein

Mario Conde is a Cuiban police lieutenant haunted by his desire - and failure - to write. He is investigating the disappearance of an old school-mate - the big man on campus that married the girl Conde also desired - and failed to get. The third mystery in Leonardo Padura Fuentes' series featurin...

from keywestnan

This is a fascinating look at Cuba in the 1970s and '80s - Lt. Mario Conde is assigned to solve a case that carries him back to his days as an ambitious young high school student (he's now your classically cynical detective, who drinks too much and has two failed marriages). My only complaint abo...

from nancyewhite

A Cuban mystery about a policeman's high school acquaintance who goes missing and the investigation into his whereabouts. Introduces us to the detective, his friends and coworkers and his high school crush. This is the first book I've read that is written by a Cuban who is still living in Cuba an...

from ChrisConway

Enjoyable for its easy style and for its evocation of day to day life in Cuba in the 1980's, but quite pedestrian as a detective story. Maybe the next novel in the Mario Conde series is better.