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Carmen Amato - Barracuda Bay
Political corruption turns Acapulco’s first female police detective into a fugitive on the run . . . in Washington DC.
"A thrilling series" -- National Public Radio
In a derelict building for sale, Acapulco police detective Emilia Cruz stumbles on the body of a woman brutally shot to death. Incredibly, the victim was the sister of Acapulco’s ambitious mayor, who is running for re-election against an opponent with deep pockets.
Emilia’s investigation is immediately under pressure for a fast result. The victim’s ex-boyfriend has a suspiciously weak alibi but is the crime scene the key to finding the murderer? The building was once used for a secret Mexican government operation targeting a ruthless drug lord.
Meanwhile, there’s a conspiracy within the police department to force Emilia out.
Before Emilia can save her job or arrest her prime suspect, she’s sent on an errand of mercy to Washington, DC.
There she becomes a fugitive hunted by killers masquerading as cops. Alone, desperate and on the run, Emilia turns for help to a man she once vowed to murder.
He's her only chance to survive a deadly game of political intrigue on the wrong side of the border.
From Acapulco’s beaches to the streets of Washington, DC, the stakes couldn’t be higher in this electrifying, page-turning thriller.
2019 and 2020 Poison Cup award, Outstanding Series - CrimeMasters of America
"Emilia is a character who is close to my heart" - MysterySequels
"Amato brings her characters to life with her vivid writing style and sets them on the streets of a Mexico steeped in Catholicism and corruption" - OnlineBookClub.org
With unflinching authenticity from the author's own espionage and counterdrug experience in Mexico and Central America, this is a female detective mystery series like no other.
The Emilia Cruz series is for fans of international mystery and crime by Ian Rankin, Jo Nesbo, Ann Cleeves, Donna Leon and Liza Marklund, plus the Department Q series by Jussi Adler-Olsen. Fans of Don Winslow's cartel and border thrillers set in Mexico love the plots torn from the headlines of the Detective Emilia Cruz police series set in Acapulco.
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Richard Carrico - Bound To Die
40:54|Los Angeles in the 1950s drew young women with promises of work, independence, and a chance at something bigger. Harvey Glatman saw an opportunity of another kind.Posing as a photographer and using lonely-hearts clubs and modeling agencies to find victims, Glatman abducted and murdered Judith Dull, Ruth Mercado, and Shirley Bridgeford, leaving their bodies in the Southern California desert. For months, their disappearances remained disconnected and unexplained.Then Glatman targeted Lorraine Vigil. She fought back, survived, and helped expose the man behind a horrifying series of crimes. Investigators soon uncovered photographs of bound women and evidence linking Glatman to the missing victims.A killer had been hiding in plain sight. Drawing on court records, contemporary newspapers, archival material, and original research, Bound to Die: The Young Victims of A Serial Killer and Rapist follows Harvey Glatman’s trail from the streets of Los Angeles into the desolate Southern California desert, where three young women met their deaths.
Judy Penz Sheluk - A Fatal Affair
35:55|On October 28, 1937, at a remote cabin in the Algoma District of Northern Ontario, the body of 28-year-old Helen Grier was discovered by her lover, Vernon Spencer. The cause of death was a bullet to the brain.A married father of two, Spencer, 43, was held as a material witness for 71 days before being charged with Helen’s murder. A gruelling six-day trial in Sault Ste. Marie followed. Vernon Spencer was acquitted after a scant three hours of jury deliberation.Was the jury wrong? Did Vernon Spencer, former professional baseball player and Michigan dairy farmer, get away with murder? Could it have been someone local who dropped in to visit and found the pretty young brunette alone and vulnerable? Or is it possible, as was suggested by Spencer’s defence team, that it was Helen Grier who fired the fatal bullet?You be the judge.
Angela Van Breemen - Revenge Not Taken Lightly
30:44|A teenage girl sits in prison for the brutal murder of her parents.She swears she is innocent.And from beyond the grave, her mother is begging Emma Jackson to prove it.When Emma receives a chilling psychic message — Our daughter is innocent. Save Thelma Tang — she and her husband, David Harris, are pulled into a case that was supposed to be closed.But nothing about this case is what it seems.As they dig deeper, disturbing truths begin to surface. Evidence doesn’t add up. A secret organization thought to be destroyed may still be operating in the shadows. And someone is watching their every move.When a violent attack proves they’ve become targets, Emma and David must race against time to uncover the truth before an innocent girl loses everything — and before they become the next victims.Because this time, the darkness isn’t just haunting the past... It’s hunting them.