Books by Edna Buchanan and Complete Book Reviews

Edna Buchanan, Author William Morrow & Company $24 (319p) ISBN 978-0-380-97654-6
Miami crime reporter Britt Montero (Margin of Error, etc.) endures a heat wave and much worse when some apparently unrelated stories converge. When a woman claims to Britt that she's a hit man's target, she's perceived at first as lonely, then as...
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Edna Buchanan. Simon & Schuster, $26 (416p) ISBN 978-1-4391-5917-0
Half of this uneven novel from Edgar-finalist Buchanan (Nobody Lives Forever) offers a fictionalized history of the infamous, if little-known outside Florida, Prohibition-era gangster John Ashley and his moll, Laura Upthegrove. This solidly written,
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Edna Buchanan, Author Hyperion Books $22.45 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7868-6232-0
To another fine mix of murder and South Florida atmosphere, Buchanan adds a dash of romance as tough-as-nails Miami crime reporter Britt Montero (Acts of Betrayal, etc.) goes gaga for a Hollywood hunk. When superstar Lance Westfell arrives in Miami...
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Edna Buchanan, Author Hyperion Books $21.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7868-6098-2
With a pulsating narrative drive compensating for a lack of plot subtlety, Pulitzer Prize-winning crime reporter Buchanan bids fair to elevate Britt Montero (Suitable for Framing), her spunky Miami crime reporter, into the rarefied air breathed by...
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Edna Buchanan, Author Hyperion Books $21.45 (243p) ISBN 978-0-7868-6047-0
Introduced in Contents Under Pressure, likable Miami News crime reporter Britt Montero here confronts a mystery that cuts close to the bone: why she's suddenly losing her journalistic edge. Chance puts her on the spot to see a young woman killed and
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Edna Buchanan, Author Hyperion Books $21.45 (244p) ISBN 978-1-56282-802-8
With this third fictional effort (the second in a series), noted crime journalist Buchanan ( Contents Under Pressure ) liberates her central character from the up-to-now overwhelming presence of her Miami setting. Cuban-born Britt Montero, like her...
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Edna Buchanan, Author Random House (NY) $17.95 (241p) ISBN 978-0-394-57551-3
Pulitzer Prize-winning crime reporter, columnist for the Miami Herald and author of The Corpse Had a Familiar Face , Buchanan displays deft story tell ing skill in this hard-hitting police procedural, her first novel. Spanning a month of Miami days...
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Edna Buchanan, Author Hyperion Books $21.45 (277p) ISBN 978-1-56282-932-2
The steaming, seething city of Miami is the compelling setting for a Pulitzer Prize-winning police reporter in Buchanan's ( The Corpse Had a Familiar Face ; Nobody Lives Forever ) series launch . Blonde, green-eyed and game, Cuban American Britt...
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Edna Buchanan, Author Jove Books $4.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-55773-284-2
Police reporter for the Miami Herald for 16 years, the Pulitzer Prize winner has covered some 5000 murders. Her stories here range from a case that triggered three days of rioting to a father who shot his comatose daughter in a hospital. ``Buchanan...
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Edna Buchanan, Author Random House (NY) $17.95 (275p) ISBN 978-0-394-55794-6
Buchanan, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1986, has been the police reporter for the Miami Herald for 16 years and has covered some 5000 murder cases. Born and raised in New Jersey (which she hated), she got to Miami (which she loves) by accident and...
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Edna Buchanan, Author Avon Books $6.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-380-72261-7
The assured second installment in Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Buchanan's series featuring hard-boiled Miami journalist Britt Montero. (Feb.)
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Edna Buchanan, Author Avon Books $7.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-380-72260-0
A Miami crime reporter investigates excessive police violence in Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Buchanan's closely observed and compelling series launch. (Feb.)
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Edna Buchanan, Author . Simon & Schuster $25 (358p) ISBN 978-0-7432-9477-5
In this explosive first in a new suspense series from Edgar-finalist Buchanan, Michael Venturi, a deputy U.S. marshal involved in running the Federal Witness Protection Program, realizes a mobster he's in charge of, Gino Salvi, has been...
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Edna Buchanan, Author . Simon & Schuster $25 (308p) ISBN 978-0-7432-9476-8
A fter eight Britt Montero novels and two Cold Case Squad novels, Edgar-finalist Buchanan (Miami, It’s Murder ) brings Britt and the Cold Case Squad together in this first-rate mystery-thriller. When Miami police discover the remains of...
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Edna Buchanan, Author . Simon & Schuster $24 (259p) ISBN 978-0-7432-5055-9
Saving Shadows, a historic Miami waterfront estate that's about to be bulldozed—annoying preservationists and reopening a 45-year-old unsolved murder—isn't enough to rescue its novel namesake. Staying in familiar Miami territory,
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Edna Buchanan, Author . Simon & Schuster $22.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-7432-5053-5
Usual series heroine Britt Montero (The Ice Maiden ; You Only Die Twice ) is nowhere to be seen as Buchanan focuses instead on the Miami Police Department's Cold Case Squad, led by Sgt. Craig Burch: "I breathe new life into old, cold cases...
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Edna Buchanan, Author . Morrow $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-380-97332-3
Buchanan'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...
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When the body of a beautiful woman is found floating offshore, seaweed in her hair, veteran Miami News police-beat reporter Britt Montero gets the call in an engrossing who-was-it that soon becomes an equally intriguing whodunit. Britt senses a...
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Edna Buchanan, read by Erin Bennett. Dreamscape Media, $59.99 ISBN 978-1-62923-722-0
Pulitzer Prize-winner Buchanan’s first book about tough, resourceful, and beautiful crime reporter Britt Montero, published in 1992, has its dated aspects—the absence of cellphones, laptops, and other tools of the trade, not to mention the Internet’s
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Edna Buchanan, Author, Sandra Burr, Read by , read by Sandra Burr. Brilliance $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-58788-410-8
Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Buchanan has retained an impeccably high standard since turning to fiction with 1990's Nobody Lives Forever, and her eighth mystery featuring Miami News crime reporter Britt Montero is one of the best....
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