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SPOTLIGHT
BARRACUDA BAY delivers all the page-turning drama readers have come to expect from the award-winning Detective Emilia Cruz police series from ex-CIA officer Carmen Amato.
A back-to-back winner of the Outstanding Series Award from CrimeMasters of America.
When Acapulco detective Emilia Cruz finds a woman’s body in a derelict building, the case explodes—the victim is the mayor’s sister, and election season is heating up. The crime scene holds secrets: the building once housed a covert government operation targeting a brutal drug lord that Emilia would prefer to forget.
Before Emilia can zero in on her prime murder suspect, she’s dispatched to Washington, DC where she becomes a target of killers disguised as cops. Alone and desperate, Emilia is caught in a lethal web of corruption, betrayal, and political intrigue. Her only hope of survival lies with a man she once vowed to kill.
Her brother.
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