Carolina Garcia-Aguilera

Carolina Garcia-Aguilera (born July 13, 1949) is an American writer born in Havana, Cuba. She has written seven (7) novels in a mystery series, three (3) stand-alone novels, numerous short stories and contributed to a number of Anthologies. Carolina Garcia-Aguilera moved to the United States when she was 10 years old. She attended Miss Porter's Preparatory School in Farmington, Connecticut, for high school before graduating from Rollins College in Winter Park, FL, with a B.A. in history and political science. Carolina Garcia-Aguilera went on to obtain a master's degree in Language and Linguistics, an MBA in Finance, and has continued studies for a PhD in Latin American Affairs.

In 1986 Carolina Garcia-Aguilera became a private investigator with a goal of writing a series featuring a female Cuban-American P.I. based in Miami. The first book in the Lupe (Guadalupe) Solano mystery series was published in 1996, and was followed by six (6) other Lupe Solano books. "Havana Heat" published in 2000 won the 2001 Shamus Award for Best P.I. Hard Cover Novel.