Carmen Amato

Hat Dance (Detective Emilia Cruz, #2) (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A greedy arsonist. A missing girl.

Acapulco's first female police detective is desperately searching for two people who don't want to be found.

Detective Emilia Cruz has problems.

Her new lieutenant is a drunk. Her new partner is a surly ex-boxer who refuses to work with women. Worst of all, her new romance with hotel manager Kurt Rucker is already on the rocks.

When a restaurant is firebombed, Emilia and Kurt barely escape a fiery death along with Acapulco's popular mayor.

As more upscale restaurants are targeted by an unknown arsonist, Emilia is assigned to investigate who is behind the attacks. At the same time, a shadowy group on social media incites rage-fueled protests that bring Acapulco to a standstill.

Despite intense pressure to find the firebug, Emilia can't refuse a grandmother's plea to look for a missing girl from her own neighborhood.

The girl's trail leads to Acapulco's famous lucha libre fighters. Inside the coliseum, Emilia will find a shocking link to the fires.

If a female police detective's only chance to survive is to dance with the devil, will she take it?

Would you?

Ex-CIA author Carmen Amato infuses the Detective Emilia Cruz series with the authenticity and intrigue from counterdrug experiences during her own career. Perfect for lovers of international detective and crime fiction by Ian Rankin, Jo Nesbo, Ann Cleeves and Peter May, as well as Don Winslow's Mexican cartel and border thrillers.

2-time winner, Outstanding Series Award -- CrimeMasters of America

"A thrilling series" -- National Public Radio

"A story far richer than the thriller-factories of the big publishing houses. If she continues writing this series, I'll keep reading it."- LibraryThing

Acapulco, the fabled resort city known for nightclubs and cliff divers, now has the highest homicide rate in Mexico. The Detective Emilia Cruz series takes on cartels, corruption and social inequality. It's not just a walk on the beach.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Laurel & Croton
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798989140398
• Artikelnr.: 75517299

Autorenporträt

Carmen Amato turns lessons from a 30-year career with the Central Intelligence Agency into crime fiction loaded with danger and deception.

The Detective Emilia Cruz series pits the first female police detective in Acapulco against Mexico's drug cartels, corruption, and social inequality. Dubbed "A thrilling series" by National Public Radio, the series was awarded the Poison Cup Award for Outstanding Series from CrimeMasters of America in both 2019 and 2020 and has been optioned for television.

Her Galliano Club historical thriller series was inspired by the stories told by her grandfather who was a deputy sheriff during Prohibition.

Originally from upstate New York, Carmen was educated there as well as in Virginia and Paris, France, while experiences in Mexico and Central America ignited her writing career.

She is a recipient of both the National Intelligence Award and the Career Intelligence Medal.

Every other Sunday, Carmen's Mystery Ahead newsletter unlocks her top secrets with exclusive announcements, sneak peeks at her next book and reviews of must-read mysteries.

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