Mario Conde Investigates

Leonardo Padura’s beloved detective and alter ego Mario Conde solves cases in a dangerous and deteriorating Cuba–the basis of Netflix’s popular miniseries Four Seasons in Havana.

These popular Cuban police procedurals from award-winning novelist and journalist Leonardo Padura offer a colorful glimpse into the cultural history of the island and its stages of decay. With books like Heretics and The Transparency of Time that expand on the original “Havana Quartet” readers will discover why fans have compared the author not just to noir and crime masters like Dashiell Hammett, but literary luminaries like Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Mario Vargas Llosa.