I would get involved with one of these intertwined stories and get aggravated to. find myself in the other story. The basic premise of the book (that when the same people meet a second time in a later life, the outcome can change) did not work for me at all. The original John and Laura were not...
Very exciting book, kind of a cross between a thriller/cozy mystery/police procedural. The main character is a tough but compassionate newspaper reporter who handles the police beat with skill. Britt Montero is a part Cuban, native Miamian, who only ever wanted to be a journalist despite her mo...
Miami is a city teeming with life and with a restless energy that is undeniable. A city where the skies are always blue and life and death are seldom simple. Miami is also the home of Britt Montero, a feisty, charismatic Cuban-American crime reporter.In Miami, It's Murder, Britt is investigating ...
In the pantheon of crime solvers, Britt Montero is one of the best. As a crime beat reporter for the Miami News, she’s one of the first on the scene when a beautiful nude woman is discovered on a beach near the city. After several days of fascinating maneuvering lovingly detailed by author Edna B...
So says Sgt. Craig Burch of Miami's Cold Case Squad at the end of the first chapter of Edna Buchanan's new novel, Love Kills. So have readers been wondering since reporter Britt Montero vanished after her lover, homicide cop Kendall McDonald, was killed three books ago in Buchanan's The Ice Maide...
Ice Maiden - GEdna Buchanan - 8th in seriesBuchanan's alter ego, Miami crime reporter Britt Montero, returns as the protagonist of an eighth fast-paced detective thriller (after You Only Die Twice). The Miami police's cold case squad (which investigates long-unsolved crimes) catches a break when ...
In a fourth Britt Montero mystery set against a backdrop of one of Miami's most terrifying hurricanes, Britt finds clues to the Cuban killer who had betrayed her father. Reprint. NYT. "
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for her crime reporting, Edna Buchanan now occupies a place of honor in the pantheon of American suspense novelists; a master storyteller whose chillingly inventive plots hold a reader spellboound from the opening word.Frank Douglas has everything to live for. But som...
Nobody Lives Forever is in the series by Edna Buchanan about Dusty of the Miami Police department. Edna is a Pulitzer Prize winner for her police reporting of Miami's crime scene. It is night of a full moon and crimes escalate. Laurel fights panic as she awaits her Detective husband who is workin...
While attempting an arrest, a sheriff is shot by a woman who vanishes into northern Florida, but who will definitely be heard from again. Edna Buchanan starts her ninth novel about Britt Montero gently,but ratchets up the suspense until it screams along with all the murdered in Keppie's wake. Bri...
From Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Edna Buchanan--the national bestselling author of The Corpse Had a Familiar Face--a book of the shocking and offbeat true-crime stories that made her famous. Buchanan describes murder, mayhem and madness in Miami.
Transcribed and published in black and white, the shooting tape didn’t read like much, but listening to the gunfire and the screams was electrifying. Trish had inadvertently pushed the record button in the excitement seconds before the shooting. Incomprehensible shouts and...
The man was not what Burch expected. Still another unlikely match for Natasha. It seemed they all were. Short, swarthy, and pudgy, Asher wore what appeared to be a permanent five o'clock shadow and an expensive suit that looked as though he'd slept in it. His office was in a modern ten-story buil...
Burch said.“Me, too,” Nazario said. “I read a book about it when I was a kid.”“Look, is that it?”“It’s a lot smaller than I thought it would be.”The detectives had arrived at the San Antonio airport too late to drive to Summer Nolan’s ranch outside the city, so Burch had asked the taxi driver to ...
Vicki said later. “I can’t even sleep in my own apartment. Sidney jammed the toilets, turned on all the faucets full blast, and flooded the entire place.“I went to see him at Riker’s Island this morning. It was awful.”Venturi winced. “I’m sorry.”“I wanted to hear his explanation or apology. He ha...