Death Blow

Name: Death Blow
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Isabella Maldonado
ISBN: 9781666120042

Author: Isabella Maldonado

Series: Veranda Cruz Mystery #3

Narrator: Raquel Beattie

Unabridged: 10 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/28/2021

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Police Procedural, Women Sleuths

Synopsis

Phoenix detective Veranda Cruz's relentless pursuit of the Villalobos crime family pits her against its most ruthless member yet.

Beautiful, shrewd, and lethal, Daria Villalobos is on a mission. Determined to be the first woman to take the reins of her father's notorious organization, she hatches a plot to eliminate Veranda, framing a rival to take the fall.

Veranda Cruz is on a mission of her own. Intent on destroying the powerful Villalobos criminal empire, Veranda battles her department and her personal demons as she takes on Daria.

To survive the most cunning adversary she's ever faced, will she make a pact with a killer?

Contains mature themes.

About Isabella Maldonado

Award-winning author Isabella Maldonado wore a gun and badge in real life before writing crime fiction. A graduate of the FBI National Academy in Quantico and the first Latina in her police department to attain the rank of captain, she served as a patrol officer, hostage negotiator, spokesperson, recruit instructor, patrol supervisor, and district station commander before her final assignment as the commander of the Special Investigations and Forensics Division. Retiring after twenty-two years on the force, Ms. Maldonado uses her law enforcement experience to bring a realistic edge to her writing. She is a member of the FBI National Academy Associates, Fairfax County Police Association, International Thriller Writers, Mystery Writers of America, International Society of Latino Authors, and Sisters in Crime, where she served as president of the Phoenix Metro Chapter in 2015 and sat on the board until 2019. The author of the FBI Agent Nina Guerrera series and the Detective Veranda Cruz series, she lives in the Phoenix area with her family.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Skip on April 06, 2019

Like Brendan DuBois, I think Isabella Maldonado one of those very talented writers, about whom nobody has ever heard. One can only hope that the surprising popularity of the TV show, Breaking Bad, about neighboring city Albuquerque will bring readers to the Southwest. Maldonado own experiences are a......more

Goodreads review by Jim on May 03, 2019

Third book in series. Clearly a step down from first two books of series. Phoenix detective Veranda Cruz breaks every policy and procedure she can still battling the deadly Villalobos cartel. Daughter Daria is bringing the challenge this time around. I found it very tiring she's still doing almost e......more

Goodreads review by Анастасія ꒰⁠⑅⁠ᵕ⁠༚⁠ᵕ⁠꒱⁠˖⁠♡ on March 08, 2025

І знову всі намагаються вбити Веранду, і нікому це не вдається 😀 Щось я не до кінця зрозуміла де Дар'я поділась, наче в книжці написано що вона померла, а наче вона втекла🤷🏻‍♀️ Знову навколо жгг крутяться чоловіки, відчуття що більше жінок немає. Їх колишній вже хлопець мене вбив своєю вимогою, або......more

Goodreads review by Adrian Lawrence on March 31, 2022

I've only got myself to blame as I don't like to DNF, especially on a series, but I payed the price. It got to the point that I didn't care what was going on in this book but I struggled on. So many pages, even chapters, aren't worthy of your attention. The whole book is simply a reworked version of......more

Goodreads review by Grace on March 01, 2019

Phoenix detective Veranda Cruz is determined to stop the deadly Villalabos cartel once and for all. With two sons dead, it is now daughter Daria who wants the honourable task of killing Veranda. Framing rival Salazar would be an added bonus. But a booby trapped coyote body and another bombing that de......more