That Time in Caracas

That Time in Caracas is the third in the Valairia Hernandez Mystery series that also includes That Time in Havana and That Time in New York. An outspoken Cuban social worker who is proud of her country; she is a Cuban most folks in the United States may not get to meet. Laira (Valairia Hernandez named for Vladimir Lenin) is befriended by an ambitious neophyte journalist, who embroils her in her attempts to ferret out a movie star's secret. Along the way, she meets a number of Venezuelans from street sellers to government types, business people to film stars, travels to other cities, learns the Metro, and completes the satisfaction survey of Cuban volunteers, and in the end solves a couple of murders.