New release MURDER AT THE GALLIANO CLUB is now available in Kindle and paperback editions. The first novel in the Galliano Club thriller series debuted in the Number 2 spot on Amazon’s Italian Literature category. Thank you to so many early readers! Join bootlegger...
Are you a food blogger? Love to cook Italian? Are you looking for a fresh, fun collaboration opportunity? The Galliano Club series of historical thriller books will be released this coming Fall 2022. The hunt is on for Italian-loving food bloggers and Instagram...
ROAD TO THE GALLIANO CLUB, prequel to the Galliano Club historical thriller series, is available now in Kindle and paperback formats. The Galliano Club historical thriller series has been in the works for over a year, with excerpts doled out in the Mystery Ahead...
My 2021 Gift Guide features everything a mystery lover needs for the year ahead. Keep scrolling to find reader favorites from the Mystery Ahead newsletter, non-fiction reads that go inside the Detective Emilia Cruz mystery series and the Galliano Club thriller series,...
Andrew Hallam recently profiled Carmen Amato's author journey in an article about book publishing for AssetBuilder.com. Entitled “How to Publish a Book: Three Options Instead of One,” the article examines today’s publishing choices--traditional, self-publishing, and...
10 November 2020 Political thriller THE HIDDEN LIGHT OF MEXICO CITY has been longlisted for the 2020 Millennium Book Award. The novel features a Mexican attorney who fights an insidious plot to use drug cartel money to buy the Mexican presidency, even as his lover...
15 October 2020 AWAKENING MACBETH, a romantic thriller with a paranormal twist by Carmen Amato, tops BookLife's Indie Spotlight of paranormal and supernatural offerings for October 2020: ...
27 September 2020 The Italian translation of MADE IN ACAPULCO was released this week by Italian publisher Virgibooks. Specializing in short stories and novellas, Virgibooks will translate and distribute additional Detective Emilia Cruz titles in 2020 including "The...
13 September 2020 The Detective Emilia Cruz police procedural series received the 2020 Poison Cup Award from CrimeMasters of America, the second year in a row that the series has been honored with the award. A peer award, the Poison Cup is a significant and coveted...
30 July 2020 RUSSIAN MOJITO, the 7th installment of the Detective Emilia Cruz police procedural series set in Acapulco by Carmen Amato, is a finalist for the 2020 Silver Falchion Award from the Killer Nashville International Mystery Writers Conference. See the press...
25 June 2020 CLIFF DIVER, the first thriller in the Detective Emilia Cruz series by Carmen Amato has been released in Spanish as LA CLAVADISTA. Emilia Cruz, the first female police detective in Acapulco, dives into an ocean of secrets, lies, and murder when she...
26 May 2020 The first six books in the award-winning Detective Emilia Cruz police procedural series set in Acapulco are available as a box set for Kindle entitled DEATH IN ACAPULCO: Detective Emilia Cruz Books 1-6. This box set contains the complete first 6 novels:...
May 21, 2020 Mystery author Carmen Amato breaks down the best-selling business book, THE 10X RULE by Grant Cardone, to show how it applies to a writing career. Entitled "What Writers Have to Learn From the 10X Rule," the article appeared as a guest post for Jane...
16 May 2020 NARCO NOIR, the 8th installment in the Detective Emilia Cruz police procedural series set in Acapulco by Carmen Amato, is now available in ebook and paperback formats from Laurel & Croton. A bitter past drives Acapulco’s first female police detective...
August 24, 2019 Carmen Amato has won the 2019 Silver Falchion Award in the Short Story/Collection category from the Killer Nashville International Writers Conference for THE ARTIST a Detective Emilia Cruz short story published in the bilingual illustrated volume THE...
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