Havana Gold
By Leonardo Padura,
Translated by Peter Bush
Bitter Lemon Press £8.99, 278 pages
FT bookshop price: £7.19

Havana, spring 1989. A young teacher is found strangled in her apartment. There is evidence that at least two men have raped her and that marijuana has been smoked. Inspector Mario Conde, aka The Count, is appointed to the case – and told that there are pressures “from the highest authority” to solve it fast.