Alex Abella: 4 books

Charlie Morell, a court-appointed private investigator, is compelled to take on the case of two Cuban "marielitos" - followers of the voodoo-like santería cult - accused of a particularly vicious massacre in a downtown Los Angeles jewelry store. But Charlie is himself Cuban, hiding in the City of Angels away from his own guilty secrets - just another faceless detective.

Jason Blue is a 1950s hard boiled detective out of San Francisco. He's hired to go down to pre-Castro, decadent Havana to find a rich American lost in the tropical turmoil of sex, drugs and politics. The result is nothing like anybody expected. Cynical, sexy and thrilling, Jason joins the ranks...

An “entertaining and fast-paced” account of the organization that defines the military-industrial complex—and continues to shape our world today (The New York Times Book Review). The RAND Corporation was born in the wake of World War II as a think tank to generate research and analysis...

Can you ever relive the past? Can a woman go back in time and rekindle a passion that was once cruelly extinguished? Can a man, no matter how wealthy and powerful, recreate the world he knew when he was young? Miranda Ferri is the inheritor of a famous name in California’s Santa Margarita valley—but...