Teresa Dovalpage

Feb 10, 2024 | bookreporter.com | Teresa Dovalpage

In true mystery style, LAST SEEN IN HAVANA is the story of Sarah, a woman who had disappeared from Cuba decades prior to the present time. Sarah’s daughter, Mercedes, returns to Cuba to help the grandmother who raised her and decides to investigate something that has bothered her all her life: the disappearance of her mother. Author Teresa Dovalpage provides us with two narratives: Mercedes' present-day account and Sarah’s story.

Feb 6, 2024 | crimereads.com | Teresa Dovalpage

Authenticity is a big issue in literature. Who wants to read a fake? Nadie. Nobody! Now, when discussing English texts, the topic of authenticity tends to focus on how to express in this language events or dialogues that happen in another. My previous piece, “Writing with an Accent,” was precisely about how I used a foreign language (Spanish) to preserve authenticity without compromising understanding in my novel Death under the Perseids, which takes place in Havana.

Dec 8, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Jahmal Mayfield |Lizzie Pook |Rachel Kapelke-Dale |Teresa Dovalpage

Wendy Church. Severn House, $31.99 (224p) ISBN 978-1-4483-1259-7In this tasty series opener, Church (the Jesse O’Hara series) introduces 20-something Chicago chef Sagarine Pfister, who quickly gets tangled up in the Windy City’s criminal underworld. One evening, Sagarine arrives at work to find her boss, executive chef Louie Ferrar, dead in the kitchen’s walk-in freezer.

Dec 6, 2023 | kirkusreviews.com | Teresa Dovalpage |Lisa Jewell |Ariel Lawhon

It's hard to read but hard to look away from. When two women who share a birthday meet, a journalist becomes the subject of her own true-crime mystery. On their 45th birthdays, Josie Fair and Alix Summer meet at a pub and discover they were born not only on the same day, but in the same hospital. Alix is a successful journalist, and Josie convinces Alix that her story is worth telling: Josie met her husband when she was 13 and he was 40.

Dec 6, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Elliot Ackerman |James Stavridis |Teresa Dovalpage |Edwin Hill

Former Marine Ackerman and retired Navy admiral Stavridis follow up 2034 with another top-shelf thriller about near-future geopolitical turmoil. The decade-long rule of American president Angel Castro, whose American Dream Party has weakened both the Democratic and Republican parties to the point of near-extinction, ends suddenly after he collapses during a public speech. At first, Castro’s administration covers up the incident, digitally altering images to make it seem as if he only stumbled.