Carolina Garcia-Aguilera: Bloody Shame (USA 2025)

From the Publisher:
Miami's favorite "feisty and engaging" Cuban-American sleuth is back to tackle deadly domestic drama in her second outing following Bloody Waters (People).

With her investigation agency running as smoothly as her Mercedes, Lupe Solano finally has time to take a vacation to Key West, the home of one of her former lovers. But sun and sex will have to wait when her best friend, interior designer Margarita Vidal, passes away in a car accident.

Before she died, Margarita had seemed preoccupied and mentioned that she knew something about Lupe's latest case -- a jewelry store owner's killing of a thief. Determined to figure out what Margarita was trying to tell her, Lupe throws herself into the investigation, uncovering unlikely connections between marriage and murder...

Carolina Garcia-Aguilera: Bloody Shame. A Lupe Solano Mystery. Open Road Media, ISBN: 9798337202167 (June, 2025), eBook, 4 MB (ca. 417 p.), $9.99.

Carolina Garcia-Aguilera: Bloody Shame (USA 1998)

From the Publisher:
Cuban-born PI Lupe Solano is coerced by an old friend and sometime lover, criminal defense attorney Tommy McDonald, to investigate what appears to be an open-and-shut case of self-defense. A prosperous Cuban-American merchant claims he shot a Cuban rafter when the man attempted to rob his shop. At the same time, Lupe's closest friend, Margarita, dies in a car accident on her way to reveal important information to Lupe. Are the two events related? Lupe has a hunch they are.

Carolina Garcia-Aguilera: Bloody Shame. A Lupe Solano Mystery. Berkley Publishing Group, ISBN: 0425161404 (January, 1998), 307 p., $6.50.

Carolina Garcia-Aguilera: Bloody Shame (USA 1997)

From the Publisher:
Newsday called the sexy twenty-six-year-old Cuban-born PI Lupe Solano "a woman to be reckoned with on the mystery scene," when she made her debut in Bloody Waters. Now Lupe is back, investigating a murder that may involve the death of her best friend since childhood.

Lupe is coerced by an old friend and sometime lover, criminal defense attorney Tommy McDonald, to investigate what appears to be an open-and-shut case of self-defense. A prosperous Cuban-American merchant claims he shot a Cuban rafter when the man attempted to rob his shop. At the same time, Lupe's closest friend, Margarita, dies in a car accident on her way to reveal important information to Lupe. Are the two events related? Lupe has a hunch they are.

"Feisty and engaging" (People), with "enthusiasm and sexy charm" (Chicago Tribune), Lupe Solano is an investigator whose big heart can get in the way of her clearsightedness. When it threatens to do so, she knows to seek the advice of her sister, Lourdes, a spunky nun with an open mind, and her bodybuilding assistant and first cousin, Leonardo, or to take comfort in homemade conch fritters and strong Cuban coffee at her Papi's sprawling Coco plum estate.

Carolina Garcia Aguilera offers an appealing and thoroughly original cast of characters, a taste of Cuban American culture, and a gripping story drawn from her firsthand experience as an investigator. The Miami Herald, in its review of Bloody Waters, wrote, "Hola, Lupe. Come back soon." Here she is again, and readers won't be disappointed.

"Carolina Garcia-Aguilera adds a long-awaited voice to the South Florida panoply of crime writers. Welcome to the neighborhood, Ms. Solano." - Les Standiford

In writing the Lupe Solano series, Cuban-born Carolina Garcia-Aguilera draws on her ten years of experience as a private investigator. She lives in Miami, and is at work on the third novel in the series, Bloody Secrets.

Carolina Garcia-Aguilera: Bloody Shame. A Lupe Solano Mystery. Putnam's, ISBN: 0399142568 (February, 1997), 275 p., $22.95.