All the Broken Girls

Linda Hurtado Bond

Aug 2022 · Sold by Entangled: Amara

About this ebook

When one falls

Crime reporter Mari Alvarez was never able to solve her mother’s murder ten years ago. But when a woman is gunned down on the doorstep of her West Tampa neighborhood, Mari can’t shake the eerie sense of connection.

The others will break

Now there have been two murders in two days. Each crime scene awash with arcane clues—and without a trace of DNA from the killer. And for each victim, a doll. The first is missing an eye. The second is missing a heart. But are these clues leading to the killer...or messages for Mari?

Unless she plays the game...

Caught up in a maelstrom of Old-World superstition, secrets, and ties to her own past, Mari has only one option. Put the puzzle together before someone else dies—even if it destroys her career. But there’s no escaping the hungry spider’s web when it’s been made just for you...

Ratings and reviews

This was a tense, angsty, and gripping read that kept me on edge. The storylines were laced together with heinous crimes, the main character’s prominent OCD traits, tons of family drama, loads of unfamiliar Cuban cultural issues, and the oddly mysterious practices of Santeria which are mingled with Catholic rhetoric, a practice and belief system I confess to being grossly ignorant of. The story progressed slowly and I often wanted to give a kick in the pants to the deeply flawed main protagonist

Santería is a large part of this story and I have to admit I was confused with a lot of the terminology. The story was super suspenseful and fast paced. Marisol was a crime reporter. She’s been demoted but it’s still in her blood and she can’t help but still investigate. The backstory was an integral part of what was happening. The ending was left open for more to come. Broken girls blossom into warriors. Be a warrior, Marisol. Be a warrior. Overall I enjoyed this story very much and look fo

About the author

Linda Hurtado Bond is an Emmy-award winning journalist. She works as a television news reporter and anchor in Tampa, Florida. For the past twenty years, she's been reporting on local and national events, as well as writing emotional, human-interest stories on both the best and worst in our society. She’s seen it all, and her unique vantage point provides endless content for her fiction books. Entangled Publishing released Linda's two romantic adventures, Alive at 5 and Cuba Undercover as well as her medical thriller, Flatline. Think James Bond meets Romancing the Stone. Her latest series takes a darker turn, investigative thrillers, starting with All the Broken Girls. All the Missing Girls and The Phantom Pirate of Gasparilla release in late 2024 and early 2025. Linda is also the host of Tampa Bay Reads, an author-related segment that airs on her TV news station highlighting local book influencers, authors, and others in the book community. A breast cancer survivor, Linda took the worst day of her life and turned it into one of life’s best opportunities, now using her platform as a news anchor to support nonprofits like the American Cancer Society and to advocate for others fighting cancer. She has won 13 Emmy awards, numerous Society of Professional Journalist and Associated Press awards, as well as a Florida Bar and an Edward R. Murrow award. This former baton-twirling beauty queen from the deep south, Go Dawgs, now lives in Tampa with her husband. They’ve raised five kids, a surgeon, a nurse, a paramedic, a pilot, and a future psychologist. Fair to say they’ll be taken care of in retirement.