S2 Ep381: TV Journalist Linda Hurtado/Author Linda Bond's Debuts "All The Captive Girls"

Tampa Bay Podcast Archive

Host Nanette Wiser is a big fan of Fox TV journalist Linda Hurtado - who is also author Linda Bond. Linda thrills us with her upcoming novel debut "All The Captive Girls" just in time (and set in ) Gasparilla. The book is the third in this series (All The Missing Girls, All The Broken Girls) and is one of her many thriller and romance books. The book publishes February 17 and is currently on pre-order on Amazon. The plot is a cat and mouse tango, with local history/lore, deep AI research and mayhem plus a dash of Phantom of the Opera references! Tampa Bay crime reporter Mari Alvarez thought the worst was behind her. She thought she could return to work, her sister, her friends, and her still-undefined relationship with Detective Tony Garcia. To find something almost normal…until a killer everyone thought was dead contacts her. Because he wants to play a game—a twisted dance of revenge, where Mari must play by the rules…or lose everyone and everything she loves. Now Tampa Bay’s lively Gasparilla pirate festival has turned into an event filled with terror and horror, and Mari is the unwitting star. Every move she makes is being watched by social media, even as the killer twists the truth and manipulates her with lies, deepfakes, and misinformation. He can take her job. He can take her reputation. He can take everyone who loves her. And unless she can stop him, he’ll hold her captive in the one cage she won’t be able to escape: her own fear.
ABOUT LINDA: By day, Linda Hurtado Bond is an Emmy and Edward R. Murrow award-winning journalist. By night, she’s an author of James Bond-like adventures and heart-stopping thrillers. Linda met her husband Jorge on assignment in Cuba, twenty-some years later they've raised a doctor, a nurse, a pilot, a paramedic firefighter, and an aspiring psychologist. A breast cancer survivor, she’s active in the Tampa community raising money and awareness. When not working she finds time for her passions, her husband Jorge, world travel, classic movies, and solving a good mystery. https://www.lindabond.com/ (Linda Hurtado Bond, seen here with husband Jorge.)