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Mystery series author carmen amato announces the release of. If you love don winslows cartel and border thrillers, you need to read the light. An emilia cruz story is part of the mystery series by carmen amato featuring the first and only female police detective in acapulco. When we lived in mexico, i had a great circle of friends who were women from all over the worldrussia, germany, england, as well as the us. Connect with carmen amato, author of the hidden light of. Amato fills the pages with threedimensional characters that you care about. A warm messy business welcome to carmen amato, the excellent author of three politicalcrime books. Amato originally imagined hidden light as a nonfiction look at mexicos social pyramid, and infuses her fictional novel with a similar, quiet, moral subtext. The author has also written a standalone thriller novel called the hidden lights of mexico city. For lovers of international detective fiction by ian ra. There are so many plates spinning here that it would have been easy for a lesstalented author to drop a few, but carmen amato moves swiftly at all times, weaving deftly between the various storylines she has going. She paints a frightening although not unexpected picture of corruption and organized crime, focusing on a few honest cops this is actually the theme of all four books and their efforts to clean. Not only has carmen amato written a gripping story, she has also captured the essence of life in mexico city and the nuances that convince she knows of what she speaks. I was actually floored by carmen amato s books not just diablo nights, but the entire emilia cruz trio but the hidden light of mexico city as well.
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