Carmen Amato

43 Missing Carmen Amato

The award-winning Detective Emilia Cruz series delivers a heart-stopping alternative history novel as Acapulco's first female police detective confronts Mexico's most notorious true crime."A thrilling series." - National Public Radio

Emilia finds herself in Mexico City, part of a national task force examining the disappearance of 43 college students from a city in central Mexico. Despite its high profile, the task force lacks technical tools, organized case files, and reliable witnesses. It's a paper exercise to cover somebody's political you-know-what. Nobody expects to find out how the 43 students disappeared. Nobody expects to make an arrest.

As the task force heads to the scene of the crime, a diplomat from the United States embassy offers Emilia $50,000 to spike the investigation. The money could help her find El Acólito, the shadowy criminal she's determined to kill. How much is Emilia's loyalty, conscience, and future really worth?

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43 MISSING is based on the true events of September 2014, when 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College went missing in Iguala, Guerrero. They have yet to be found.

With gangster warlords like El Chapo calling the shots, the Mexico of Netflix's Narcos is a battleground in the global war on drugs. The Detective Emilia Cruz series takes on cartels, corruption and social inequality. After a 30 year career as a CIA intelligence officer with counterdrug experience, Carmen Amato writes mysteries and thrillers loaded with intrigue and action. Readers who love police procedural series by Ian Rankin, Jo Nesbo, Ann Cleeves, Peter May, as well as the Department Q novels and Don Winslow's cartel and border thrillers set in Mexico, also love Detective Emilia Cruz's complex plots, fast action, pulse-pounding suspense, and exotic location.

2020 Poison Cup award, Outstanding Series - CrimeMasters of America Finalist, Silver Falchion Award for Best Police Procedural of 2017