Linda Hurtado is a Journalist, Speaker, and Published Author
Linda Hurtado is a Journalist, Speaker, and Published Author
Linda Hurtado has been a trusted voice in the Tampa Bay area for over 30 years as an anchor for the number one TV station in Tampa.
A 13-time Emmy winner, her career is defined by her heart for the community; from hosting events and fundraisers to advocating for breast cancer survivors through the American Cancer Society and the annual Shoot for a Cure.
When she isn’t anchoring the news or volunteering with her husband, Jorge, she is a traditionally published thriller author and a proud mother of five. Her life is a vibrant blend of investigative journalism, compelling storytelling, community leadership, and her large, “traditional Cuban” family.
Biography
- 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.
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Linda Hurtado has been a trusted voice in the Tampa Bay area for over 30 years as an anchor for the number one TV station in Tampa.
A 13-time Emmy winner, her career is defined by her heart for the community; from hosting events and fundraisers to advocating for breast cancer survivors through the American Cancer Society and the annual Shoot for a Cure.
When she isn’t anchoring the news or volunteering with her husband, Jorge, she is a traditionally published thriller author and a proud mother of five. Her life is a vibrant blend of investigative journalism, compelling storytelling, community leadership, and her large, “traditional Cuban” family.
Books
Operation Grey Space: Perseus Rising
Where the rules end, Project Perseus begins…
A disgraced Army commander with nothing to lose and his estranged daughter, a 23-year-old commercial pilot with everything to prove, form a rogue, apolitical rescue team that operates in the grey space, the shadow zone where the U.S. government can’t, or won’t go, to save Americans no one else will fight for.
All the Captive Girls
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.
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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.
All the Missing Girls
Once you enter their world, there is no escape…in this gripping and undeniably chilling thriller from Emmy-award winning journalist Linda Hurtado Bond.
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As a crime reporter for a Tampa TV news station, Mari Alvarez knows when an investigation enters dangerous territory. But with her estranged sister missing and almost no information to go on, Mari can’t trust anyone but herself to find the truth. Now she has just 48 hours to sneak into Cuba undetected, track down her sister…and pray to her orisha that she’s not too late.
This is nothing like reporting in her neighborhood, though–a place she knows like the back of her hand. In Havana she has no contacts and only an ice-cold trail of cryptic clues. When Detective Tony Garcia offers to help, Mari puts aside her instincts and tries to let someone in. But soon they’re caught in a maze of lies, deception, and an undercurrent of the island’s own witchcraft, a sinister Brujería.
Every lead draws Mari further into this world of shadows, especially when her sister isn’t the only young woman who’s gone missing. Each step pushes Mari and Tony toward a revelation they never saw coming. And as they close in on the horrifying truth, one thing becomes clear…no one will let them leave Cuba alive.
Events
Higgins Hall 5225 N Himes Ave | Tampa, FL
101 Pinellas Ave | Tarpon Springs, Florida
Tampa River Center | Tampa, FL
New York Hilton Midtown | NYC
