Teresa Dovalpage's "Death Comes in through the Kitchen," the movie

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The novel takes place, for the most part, in Havana. The director may want to shoot it somewhere in Florida. La Pequeña Habana, perhaps. Or who knows, they may get to film the whole thing in Cuba.

The story starts with Matt Sullivan, a San Diego journalist, arriving in Havana. Yarmila, his Cuban girlfriend, should be waiting for him at the airport, but she is not. After finding her dead in a bathtub, Matt asks Padrino, a private detective, for help.

Idris Elba would be the perfect actor to play Padrino, a Santeria practitioner who...[read on]

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