The Beggar's Opera (An Inspector Ramirez Novel)

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In beautiful crumbling Old Havana Canadian detective Mike Ellis hopes the sun and sand will help save his troubled marriage. He doesnt yet know that its dead in the watermuch like the little Cuban boy last seen begging the Canadian couple for a few pesos on the world famous Malecon. For Inspector Ricardo Ramirez head of the Major Crimes Unit of the Cuban National Revolutionary Police finding his prime suspect isnt a problemCuban law is. He has only seventy-two hours to secure an indictment and prevent a vicious killer from leaving the island. But Ramirez also has his own troubles to worry about. Hes dying of the same dementia that killed his grandmother an incurable disease that makes him see the ghosts of victims of unsolved murders. As he races against time the dead haunt his every step