Award-winning Puerto Rican author Theresa Varela was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. She is the recipient of multiple International Latino Book Awards (ILBA): Murder in Red Hook: A Daisy Muñiz Mystery (2022), Coney Island Siren (2020), Nights of Indigo Blue: A Daisy Muñiz Mystery (2016) and Covering the Sun with My Hand (2015). She holds a PhD in Nursing Research and Theory Development and has worked more than twenty-five years in the mental health field in New York City blending spirituality with culture for healing.
Theresa Varela’s relationships with her spirit guides have led her into the creation of the Graciella la Gitana Oracle (2019 ILBA recipient), illustrated by her daughter, Mara Alicia Cordova. The oracle offers spiritual direction on a path of compassion and love in English and Spanish. Theresa is a board member of Puerto Rican Institute for the Development of the Arts (PRIDA); a member of Las Comadres Para las Americas; Sisters In Crime; and Crime Writers of Color.
Current Book Titles
Nights of Indigo Blue:
A Daisy Muñiz Mystery
Trade Paperback $16.99
ISBN 978-1-7327167-4-2
PUB DATE November 18, 2023
eBook $10.99
ISBN 978-1-7327167-5-9
PUB DATE December 23, 2024
PUBLISHER Pollen Press Publishing
DISTRIBUTOR IngramSpark
GENRE Fiction, Cozy Mystery
The first in the Daisy Muñiz cozy mystery series by celebrated International Latino Book Award winner Theresa Varela. Daisy Muñiz is ready to embrace a fresh new start in her brownstone apartment in Park Slope, Brooklyn, when she is thrust into the midst of the mysterious murder of Windsor Medical Center's most prominent surgeon, Arthur Campbell. As the secrets of the Campbell family are revealed, Daisy is forced to delve into her own troubled past and she becomes an unwitting ally to Detective David Rodriguez.
Murder in Red Hook:
A Daisy Muñiz Mystery
Trade Paperback Edition
364pp $16.99
ISBN: 978-1-7327167-3-5
PUB DATE: July 18, 2022
eBook $10.99
ISBN 978-1-7327167-6-6
PUB DATE December 23, 2024
PUBLISHER: Pollen Press Publishing
DISTRIBUTOR: IngramSpark
GENRE: Fiction, Cozy Mystery
The second novel in Theresa Varela’s cozy mystery series! Daisy Muñiz is back as an amateur sleuth armed with only her intuition, wit, and love for new adventures in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Daisy Muñiz is stunned by the murder of one of her closest friends in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Not only does she grapple with grief as she searches for the killer, her beau, Detective David Rodriguez, reveals secrets that her heart finds hard to accept. Daisy’s growing intuition and clairvoyance are jeopardized as everything she has believed in comes tumbling down. As Daisy takes steps to seek answers to a series of mishaps and treachery, she must learn how to trust herself and the people surrounding her.
Coney Island Siren
Trade Paperback
382pp $16.99
ISBN 978-1-7327167-1-1
PUB DATE May 9, 2019
eBook $10.99
ISBN 978-1-7327167-7-3
PUB DATE December 23, 2024
PUBLISHER Pollen Press Publishing
DISTRIBUTOR IngramSpark
GENRE Fiction, Noir
Call it coincidence or call it fate when Maggie Fuentes, rummaging through a Coney Island flea market, stumbles upon a handwritten diary whose author, a young girl of the nineteenth century named Ellen, reveals dreadful secrets that parallel Maggie’s own. In her daily life at the hospital, where she works as a nurse, Maggie is faced with two women who are unable to voice their desires for life—Amy Landry, a young woman who, in an attempt at suicide, becomes reliant on Maggie for life, and, in return, Maggie realizes her dependency on Amy’s living and surviving; and Sonya Harris, the victim of a carjacking who had no choice in her quest for life. Dulce, Maggie’s best friend, pleads upon deaf ears while Maggie sinks deep into the sinister maelstrom of her lover, Police Officer Frank Ramirez, until the stark urgency of lines written by Ellen, a kindred spirit, compel Maggie to confront reality. Far removed from each other in time but bonded by the white-capped ocean, amusement park locale, and converging torments, it seems particularly apt that the sleight-of-hand landscape of luck and chance provides the setting for Maggie’s harrowing and hypnotic encounter with turmoil, then kismet, and, ultimately, clarity and reawakening.
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