Escape to Havana, Nick Wilkshire
Escape to Havana, Nick Wilkshire
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Escape to Havana
A Foreign Affairs Mystery

Author: Nick Wilkshire

Narrator: Patrick Garrow

Unabridged: 7 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: ECW Press

Published: 01/16/2018

Synopsis

For Charlie Hillier, a posting to Cuba could be the perfect place to start his new life — if he survives it. With his career stalled and the office abuzz about his soon-to-be-ex-wife’s indiscretions, Ottawa bureaucrat Charlie Hillier is desperate for a change. So when the chance at a posting to the Canadian embassy in Havana comes up, he jumps at it, grateful to get as far away as he can from his ex and his dead-end job at Foreign Affairs headquarters. At first, exotic Havana seems just the place to bury his past and start anew, but he didn’t count on finding a couple of kilos of cocaine under his bedroom floor, the kidnapping of a fellow diplomat, or the unsettling connection he uncovers between the former occupant of his house and a Colombian drug-runner. Before long, Charlie’s only concern is whether he’ll survive his posting at all.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Esil on November 19, 2016

3.5 stars. Escape to Havana was pretty light and not very complex, but it kept me reading because of the setting. Charlie Hillier is a Canadian bureaucrat who chooses to exile himself to work in the Canadian embassy in Havana to run away from personal problems. Once there, he inadvertently stumbles......more

Goodreads review by Cindy on September 25, 2016

4 stars Escape to Havana was such a fun read! I love the main character, Charlie Hillier, and think he makes a great addition to my list of favorite mystery protagonists. Having just recently read another mystery set in Cuba, Ghosts of Havana, I frequently found myself comparing the two mysteries, an......more

Goodreads review by Toni on October 04, 2016

Book #1, in A Foreign Affairs Mystery A posting to Cuba may be the prefect escape for Charlie Hillier after catching is beloved wife in flagrante delicto during a party at the Swedish ambassador’s residence. Embracing a new challenge, this bureaucrat-turned diplomat-turned amateur sleuth will faced......more

Goodreads review by Rouleauville on April 28, 2017

Fun summer read. Wished for more 'meat' at the ending - e.g. a reappearance of Teddy the dog (with his rubber bone), dialogue post-kidnapping between Charlie and Jillian. And a closure of the innuendos made by Gustavo Ruiz (was the house bugged or not? and what was with the looks/stares that Ruiz wa......more

Goodreads review by Erin L on November 29, 2016

I received an ARC of Escape to Havana from Netgalley in return for a review. I overcommitted myself to NetGalley reviews in October and November, but this is one of the books I finished and truly enjoyed. The book involved an interesting mystery with an unusual setting and appealing characters. What......more

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