Carolina Garcia-Aguilera: Bloody Waters (USA 2025)

From the Publisher:
"Garcia-Aguilera has created a new private eye named Lupe Solano, and what a creation she is -- strong, sexy, funny, and Miami-smart." -- Nelson DeMille, #1 New York Times-bestselling author

Guadalupe Solano was raised learning about Cuba from her immigrant parents. But all Lupe knows is that growing up in a traditional Cuban-American household in Miami hasn't been easy for a woman with an independent streak and no desire to settle down. Being single and a PI is a constant test of her close-knit family's tolerance...

Nevertheless, Lupe is good at her job -- and has a soft spot for children, even if she doesn't want any of her own. So when the adoptive parents of a young girl with an inherited rare blood condition want Lupe to find their daughter's birth mother for a bone marrow transplant, she can't refuse. The adoption was private -- and illegal -- facilitated by a high-profile Miami attorney running a baby-selling scheme from Cuba. Lupe will go to any lengths to save this girl's life, even if it means her first-ever trip to the homeland just might be her last...

Carolina Garcia-Aguilera: Bloody Waters. A Lupe Solano Mystery. Open Road Media, ISBN: 9798337202150 (August, 2025), eBook, 4 MB (ca. 389 p.), $9.99.

Carolina Garcia-Aguilera: Bloody Waters (USA 1997)

From the Publisher:
Cuban-American private investigator Lupe Solano takes on a case to search for the biological mother of an illegally adopted child who is dying, and can only be saved by a bone marrow transplant. Soon enough, Lupe is risking her life, involved more deeply than ever before, in an experience that will, to her own surprise, fulfill her wildest dreams.

Carolina Garcia-Aguilera: Bloody Waters. A Lupe Solano Mystery. Berkley Publishing Group, ISBN: 0425156702 (February, 1997), 292 p., $5.99.

Carolina Garcia-Aguilera: Bloody Waters (USA 1996)

From the Publisher:
The daughter of wealthy Cubans who fled Castro's regime for Miami, Lupe Solano -- fun-loving, smart, sexy -- is hardly your typical private eye. Her sister Lourdes is a nun who carries a portable phone and skinny-dips; her father, constantly awaiting Castro's demise, has his boat ready to sail for Cuba at a moment's notice; and her secretary is her bodybuilding cousin Leonardo, who has turned the office into a gym and holds yoga classes while Lupe is out investigating cases. In Bloody Waters, Lupe takes on an assignment to search for the biological mother of an illegally adopted baby: her clients' child is dying, and the only way to save the girl's life is through a bone marrow transplant. Although this seems like a straightforward investigation with small chance of a happy outcome, soon enough Lupe is risking her life, involved more deeply than ever before in a case that will, to her own surprise, fulfill her wildest dream.

Carolina Garcia-Aguilera: Bloody Waters. A Lupe Solano Mystery. Putnam's, ISBN: 039914157X (February, 1996), 274 p., $21.95.