Nocturne 12

By Paul Roberts

Havana, 1990s. The city hums with blackouts, shortages, and rumors. Lieutenant Ana Beltr n believes she's investigating a forged death and a vanished singer. Instead, she uncovers something darker: a line in a state ledger marked only "NN - Transfer, 1979." No name. No trace. Just a dash where a life should be.

As reels of tape resurface and bodies wash up in the harbor, Ana's search collides with the ambitions of her superior, Colonel Su rez - a man whose signature on a single receipt could rewrite the city's memory. Pursued through depots, hearings, and Havana's shadowed streets, Ana discovers that silence can be deadlier than bullets, and that truth demands its own count-in: one, then two.

Nocturne is a taut Havana noir where sound becomes evidence, rooms have memories, and a city learns to hear itself again. With echoes of Leonardo Padura and Graham Greene, it blends literary atmosphere with crime-fiction urgency.

For readers of international noir, literary thrillers, and political mysteries.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FXH6WLQ2
• ISBN13: 9798268258318
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"