Every Wednesday The Latina Book Club features excerpts from exciting novels by Latino authors. Happy Reading and Happy Holidays! Take a break from your holiday shopping! Find a comfy chair, grab a mojito and lose yourself in this thrilling and hair-raising novel about Acapulco’s first female detective, Emilia Cruz, who’s taking on Mexico’s drug cartels and the culture of machismo. Good thing she can take the heat. Can you?! KING PESO: AN EMILIA CRUZ NOVEL By Carmen Amato CreateSpace EXCERPT The reunion in the squad room was less than overwhelming. Loyola was gone, retired on disability. Ibarra was acting lieutenant but had already filed his papers for a transfer to Vice. Macias and Sandor weren’t there but at a conference on criminal network analysis. Castro and Gomez were subdued, unsure of what all the changes meant for them. Emilia went to her old desk. The Las Perdidas binder went back into the big file dra...