Padura's novel about the assassination of Leo Trotzki by Catalan Communist and Stalin agent Ramon Mercader takes the reader to the Spanish Civil War, Moscow during Stalin's show trials, the Mexico of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, and finally to contemporary Cuba. This is a novel of murky conspiracie[...]

A gripping novel about the assassination of Leon Trotsky in Mexico City in 1940
In "The Man Who Loved Dogs," Leonardo Padura brings a noir sensibility to one of the most fascinating and complex political narratives of the past hundred years: the assassination of Leon Trotsky by Ramon Mercader.Th[...]

Explores the last years of Hemingway's life, evoking both Cuba and this giant of American letters with enormous skill and wit. This title takes you on a journey into the past and into the personality of one of the twentieth century's most enigmatic and powerful writers, and totally convincing portra[...]

A brutally mutilated body is discovered washed up in the bay of Havana. The body of Miguel Forcade Mier, head smashed in by a baseball bat, genitals cut off by a dull knife. Forcade, once an official in the Cuban government responsible for the confiscation of the belongings of the bourgeoisie fleein[...]

A body is found in a Havana park. A young transvestite dressed in a beautiful red evening dress, strangled. The victim had fled his family, finding refuge with Marques, an author living alone surrounded only by books, his house in ruins.[...]

Cuban writer Ivan Cardenas Maturell meets a mysterious foreigner on a Havana beach who is always in the company of two Russian wolfhounds. Ivan quickly names him "the man who loved dogs". The man eventually confesses that he is actually Ramon Mercader, the man who killed Leon Trotsky in Mexico City [...]

"Padura skriver dem sønder og sammen, om d så heter Larsson eller Läckberg." - Klaus Rothstein, Weekendavisen. Kriminaletterforsker Mario Conde har frihelg. Han våkner med dundrende hodepine etter en særdeles fuktig nyttårsaften av at telefonen ringer. Det er sjefen. Conde må komme med en gan[...]

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»Det emmer af Cuba, af rom, sved og sex i Paduras romaner. Og der er mere hjerteblod i dem end en hel årgang velfærdskrimier.«

- Niels Lillelund, Jyllands-Posten *****

»Leonardo Paduras krimier om Cuba på vrangen, set gennem den sørg[...]

»Leonardo Paduras Havana-kvartet er ´vaskeægte verdensklassekrimi´Cubansk efterårslandskab. er bedre end treeren, der var bedre end toeren, der var bedre end etteren. Og etteren var iøvrigt bedre end alle de danske og svenske journalist- og femikrimier tilsammen, ja det er faktisk [...]