The newest in Theresa Varela’s Latina cozy mystery series! Daisy Muñiz is back as an amateur sleuth armed with her intuition, wit, and love for new adventures.
Daisy Muñiz is stunned by the murder of one of her closest friends in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Not only does she grapple with grief as she searches for the killer, her beau, Detective David Rodriguez, reveals secrets that her heart finds hard to accept. Daisy’s growing intuition and clairvoyance are jeopardized as everything she has believed in comes tumbling down. As Daisy takes steps to seek answers to a series of mishaps and treachery, she must learn how to trust herself and the people surrounding her.
Murder in Red Hook: A Daisy Muñiz Mystery
Theresa Varela
Published July 18, 2022
Paperback: 364 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1-7327167-3-5
$16.99
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Garnering an 2020 International Latino Book Award, Theresa Varela’s Coney Island Siren covers topics, not normally discussed in Latino households.
Call it coincidence or call it fate when Maggie Fuentes, rummaging through a Coney Island flea market, stumbles upon a handwritten diary whose author, a young girl of the nineteenth century named Ellen, reveals dreadful secrets that parallel Maggie’s own. Maggie sinks deep into the sinister maelstrom of her lover, Police Officer, Frank Ramirez, until the stark urgency of lines written by a kindred spirit compel her to confront the reality of her- and their- lives. Far removed from each other in time but bonded by the white-capped ocean, amusement park locale, and converging torments, it seems particularly apt that the sleight-of-hand landscape of luck and chance provides the setting for Maggie’s harrowing and hypnotic encounter with turmoil, then kismet, and ultimately, clarity and reawakening.
Coney Island Siren
by Theresa Varela
Published May 9, 2019
Paperback: 382 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1-7327167-1-1
$16.99
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This collection of poems is gathered form the heart of the author’s child-self. It tells the story of her experience of the illness and ultimate loss of her older sister and breaks the silence that is often coupled with childhood grief. These verses are offered in plain, stark language that resonates with readers of all ages and are the elixir for a powerful alchemical process of collective healing.
Answered by Silence: a collection of poems
by Theresa Varela
Published December 16, 2016
Paperback: 54 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1-5393716-3-2
$10.00
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The 1st edition of the Daisy Muñiz Mystery series garnered Theresa Varela an International Latino Book Award for Best Mystery in 2015. Pollen Press Publishing launched the 2nd edition of Theresa Varela’s Nights of Indigo Blue: A Daisy Muñiz Mystery in 2016. Nights of Indigo Blue is also the first in Theresa Varela’s cozy mystery series which introduces amateur sleuth Daisy Muñiz.
Daisy Muñiz is ready to embrace a fresh new start in her brownstone apartment in Park Slope, Brooklyn, when she is thrust into the midst of the mysterious murder of Windsor Medical Center’s most prominent surgeon, Arthur Campbell. As the secrets of the Campbell family are revealed, Daisy is forced to delve into her own troubled past and she becomes the unwitting ally to Detective David Rodriguez.
Nights of Indigo Blue: A Daisy Muñiz Mystery
by Theresa Varela
Published: December 2, 2016 (2nd ed.)
Paperback, 234 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1-5390718-1-5
$14.99
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First published in 2013 by another imprint; in 2016, Pollen Press Publishing released the 2nd edition of Covering the Sun with My Hand received the International Latino Book Award for Best First Novel.
It’s the summer of 1979 and Julia Acevedo plans her escape to college; away from her ‘too traditional’ family. On her way to liberation, her twin brother, Rene, is stricken with mental illness. While accepting the sacrifices demanded of her, Julia searches for the happiness she feels she’s being denied. Going against the grain of her upbringing, Julia ultimately opens up to the incredible possibilities of life, deepening her relationship with her brother in the process.
Covering the Sun with My Hand
by Theresa Varela
Published December 16, 2016 (2nd ed.)
Paperback, 318 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1-5391222-6-5
$14.99
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