43 Missing

<p><strong>Prepare for an adrenaline-fueled ride through a dark and treacherous world when Detective Emilia Cruz investigates Mexico's most notorious true crime. </strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong><em>Astounding - Nightstand Reviews </em></strong></p><p><br></p><p>Emilia finds herself in Mexico City part of a national task force examining the forced disappearance of 43 college students from a city in central Mexico. Despite its high profile the task force is a paper exercise to cover somebody's political you-know-what. </p><p><br></p><p>Nobody expects to find out how the 43 students disappeared. Nobody expects to make an arrest.</p><p><br></p><p>As the task force heads to the scene of the crime a supposedly trustworthy diplomat offers Emilia $50000 to spike the investigation. The offer raises profound questions of loyalty conscience and her future as an honest cop. </p><p><br></p><p>Most importantly will her personal vendetta against the shadowy criminal El Acólito cloud her judgment?</p><p><br></p><p>43 MISSING is a gripping police drama based on the true events of September 2014 when 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers College were the victims of a mass kidnapping from Iguala Guerrero. Carmen Amato's masterful storytelling solves the crime which in real life remains shrouded in mystery.</p><p><br></p><p><strong><em>2019 & 2020 Poison Cup award Outstanding Series - CrimeMasters of America</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong><em>Finalist for Best Investigator 2017 Silver Falchion Award </em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong><em>A thrilling series - National Public Radio</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p>Carmen Amato's 30-year career as a CIA intelligence officer with counterdrug experience delivers authentic and thrilling mystery crime fiction loaded with danger and deception. </p><p><br></p><p>Fans of police procedural murder mystery series by Ian Rankin Jo Nesbo Ann Cleeves and Peter May as well as the Department Q novels and Don Winslow's cartel and border thrillers set in Mexico will be captivated by the intricate plots pulse-pounding suspense and exotic locations of Detective Emilia Cruz's world. She confronts the complex issues of Mexican cartels corruption and social inequality portrayed in Netflix's Narcos.</p><p><br></p><p>It's a female police detective mystery series unlike any other.</p>