Haiti Love and Murder ... In the Season of Soup Joumou

<p>The grotesque murder of a Haitian-American doctor entangles two old friends in a world of corruption conspiracy and rising personal passion.</p><p><br></p><p>Corinne Martin a British nurse-midwife and Charlie Carter a globetrotting American journalist met as first responders to the 2010 earthquake and are reunited in Haiti a decade later - after Corinne's colleague Dr. Sanctis Beauvoir is found dead in the Haitian hills with his eyes cut out. She immediately suspects a colleague. Charlie harbors doubts.</p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Set amid Haiti's worst security crisis in a century - foreshadowing the assassination of President Jovenel Moise - the novel blends history culture religion and superstition in a suspenseful story about a loyal friend chasing the truth about a grisly homicide and the tender promise of second-chance love.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Matza takes readers from the pastoral hills of the Artibonite Valley to the teeming markets of Port-au-Prince. From an orphanage for malnourished children to the high-end hotels where Haiti's elite and ex-pats mingle. From a medical clinic in a former gang house to a rural hospital where women give birth on gurneys unless they bring their own sheets.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Join Corinne Charlie Haitian investigator Kenley Claud and FBI special agent Jean JB Belizaire as they hunt for whoever killed Dr. Sanctis Beauvoir.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>(With an Epilogue on the triumphant iconic history of soup joumou and its delicious recipe.)</span></p>