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Hat Dance

Published
Sep 2013
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Police Procedural Police Procedural
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270
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A greedy arsonist. A missing girl.
 
Acapulco's first female police detective is hunting for two people who don't want to be found.
 
"A thrilling series" -- National Public Radio 
"Emilia . . . is a force to be reckoned with"- MysterySequels
 
Detective Emilia Cruz's new boss is a drunk. Her new partner hates working with women.
 
To make matters worse, she was on a date and the restaurant blew up.
 
More restaurants are firebombed and Acapulco's citizens take to the streets. As protests turn violent, Emilia's hunt for the arsonist is hijacked by savage political rivalries, a corrupt Vice cop, and a woman in prison who knows more than she'll say.

At the same time, a young girl disappears from Emilia's own neighborhood. The trail leads to Acapulco's famous lucha libre fighters. 

Inside the coliseum, the two cases ignite into an inferno. If Emilia's only chance to survive is to dance with the devil, will she take it? 

Would you? 

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Ifyou love international police procedural series by Ian Rankin, Jo Nesbo, AnnCleeves, Peter May, Louise Penny, and Jussi Adler-Olsen, you'll want to read theDetective Emilia Cruz series. It's a must-read for fans of Don Winslow's carteland border thrillers set in Mexico.

Author Carmen Amato is a former CIA intelligence officer who uses her own counterdrug and espionage experiences to craft intrigue-filled crime fiction that keeps you guessing until the very end.  Amato is a recipient of both the National Intelligence Award and the Career Intelligence Medal.

"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 

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