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Obviously not the real prison, just the facade to show tourists.

Willa befriends two reporters, and they attempt to see what has become of an imprisoned American. Residents do not have electricity, gasoline or soap. Willa learns the true reality of Havana is a family must line up for hours on a long line, stretching around a building, to obtain one orange, the allocated ration to a family for a week.

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Of course the young people of Havana are not at all free to converse with Americans, so Willa and Ernesto have to pretend not to be talking, not look at each other. Willa befriends a young man on the malecon. Tourist Police aka Minders round up and redirect any tourist who attempts to stray into the real Havana. Along the malecon, tourists are escorted to the part of Havana they are supposed to see, and indoctrinated with propaganda nonstop. Although her actions might result in disbarment, arrest and a hefty fine, Willa goes to Havana to find her mother. But when she doesn't return from her latest crusade (to Havana) Willa panics.

Willa's mother June has been picketing, leafleting, and protesting for causes all Willa's life.

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Along the malecon, touris Havana Twist by Lia Matera is the 7th (final) book of the Willa Jansson mystery series set in late-20th-century Havana, Mexico City, and California. Havana Twist by Lia Matera is the 7th (final) book of the Willa Jansson mystery series set in late-20th-century Havana, Mexico City, and California. The result is a pulse-pounding, white-knuckle ride of a mystery that shows Lia Matera at her very best.more Never before have the stakes been as high or as personal for Willa Jansson. So, in a deadly game of cat and mouse, Willa follows her mother's trail from Havana to Mexico City, from California back to Havana.all the while keeping barely one step ahead of two angry governments and at least one ruthless killer. But politics and police work are a poor substitute for those things only a daughter would know. State Department, the Cuban Interior Ministry, and Willa's old flame, San Francisco Homicide Lieutenant Don Surgelato, get into the act. And in the meantime, newfound reporter friends - or are they CIA agents? - disappear as suddenly and inexplicably as her mother did. Following clues to neighborhoods tourists never see, through secret tunnels beneath the street, and into the finest luxury hotels, Willa is manipulated, misled, and nearly arrested. But she finds that nothing there is quite as it seems. In Lia Matera's 'Havana Twist, ' Willa risks her career and passport by rushing to Cuba to retrace her mother's steps. Worse, her mother's bleeding heart may finally have gotten her into more trouble than she can get herself out of. But when her mother doesn't return with the rest of her peacenik tour group, Willa fears the feds might consider the trip 'trading with the enemy' - with a penalty of ten years in prison and a $100,000 fine. So when Willa learns her mother has flouted federal regulations and gone off to Cuba, she figures it's just a harmless pilgrimage to lefty Graceland. But when her mother doesn't return with the rest of her peacenik tour group, Willa fears the feds might consider the trip Attorney Willa Jansson's mother has never balked at breaking the law, especially not for a good cause. Attorney Willa Jansson's mother has never balked at breaking the law, especially not for a good cause.

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