Carolina Garcia-Aguilera

Carolina Garcia-Aguilera is a Cuban-born American author of mystery and thriller books. She has written standalone novels, mystery series, short stories and contributed to several anthologies. Caroline moved to the United States at the age of 10 and attended Miss Porter Preparatory School in Farmington, Connecticut. She later went to Rollins College in Winter Park and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in History and Political Science. Carolina has a Master’s in Language and Linguistics, an MBA in Finance, and a PhD in Latin American Affairs. In 1986, she became a private investigator with the goal of authoring a book series writing a private investigator based in Miami. She published Bloody Waters, the debut novel in the Lupe Solano series, in 1996. The series contains six novels. Havana Heat, the fifth book in the series, won the Shamus Award for Best P.I. Hard Cover Novel in 2001.