Edna Buchanan came to Miami on vacation from Paterson, New Jersey, and found it like stepping from a gritty black-and-white newsreel into Technicolor and Cinemascope. She fell in love with Miami’s bright textures and stark, soulful sunlight.
She settled in Miami Beach and never looked back, working her way up from covering church socials for a small, now defunct newspaper to becoming a Pulitzer Prize-winning crime reporter on the staff of The Miami Herald.
Far from the grit of Paterson, she lives in Miami Beach with four cats, at work on a new book, on leave from the maelstrom of her journalism career, in which she has reported more than five thousand violent deaths, three thousand of them murders.
She is still in love with the hard beauty of Miami, a city of sunshine and hurricanes, mayhem and murder—land of the midnight gun.
The follow up volume to the bestselling The Corpse Had A Familiar Face, the Pulitzer Prize-winning crime reporter’s unforgettable memoir, is just as dramatic, tragic, funny, bizarre, and entertaining.
Edna Buchanan once again chronicles her experiences covering the police beat for The Miami Herald. Featuring memorable tales of both heroes and villains in her signature rapid-fire style and eye for detail, set against the neon backdrop of Miami, Buchanan’s stories are as gripping as a high-octane crime novel—and they’re all true.
Pulitzer Prize-winning crime reporter Edna Buchanan’s fiction debut is just as dark, wild and dangerous as the crimes she covered for The Miami Herald.
What shocking secret do a menacing housewife, a kinky bad girl, a shy child, and a cold-blooded killer have in common? Veteran Miami homicide detective Rick Barrish sets out for the answer as he investigates a series of murders in his neighborhood and hunts down an elusive killer.
As tensions in his personal life rise, so does the murder rate, and he soon discovers that his case hits closer to home than he ever imagined.
Contents Under Pressure (A Britt Montero Mystery)
The first novel in Pulitzer Prize-winning Edna Buchanan’s riveting Britt Montero series.
Meet Britt Montero, a crime reporter for a major Miami newspaper. She practically sleeps with a police scanner by her bedside. She’s smart—and reckless—enough to pursue a story no matter where it takes her.
When a high-speed police chase leads to the death of a black football hero, Britt discovers that what seems like a cut-and-dry case is actually an intricate web of racially charged violence. As the city she loves explodes into a major riot, Britt is caught-up in life-threatening events that bring the case to its shocking twist.
Miami, It’s Murder (A Britt Montero Mystery)
Edna Buchanan weaves a tale about the murderous streets of Miami, and how the predator can quickly become the prey.
Miami crime reporter Britt Montero has a lot on her hands. She’s investigating a series of bizarre deaths involving sex, electrocution, and freshly poured concrete. As if that isn’t enough, there’s the long unsolved murder of a young girl that may implicate the front-runner in the governor’s race.
Pursuing a lead, Britt follows the trail of a serial rapist. Enraged by her stories, the rapist is soon the one trailing her. Tensions mount as Britt fights to uncover the truth with all the odds stacked against her.
Suitable for Framing (A Britt Montero Mystery)
Edna Buchanan returns with another tale of violence and murder on the streets of Miami.
A mother and child are the recent victims of a fatal hit-and-run. Miami crime reporter Britt Montero witnesses the tragedy and relentlessly pursues the story. At the same time, trouble lurks in the newsroom. A new, ambitious reporter covets Britt’s job. Britt begins to suspect that her rival’s “breaking news” stories may not be what they seem. As she investigates, Britt herself becomes the prime suspect in a shocking murder. Faced with losing more than just her job, Britt is left fighting the most desperate deadline of her life.
Act of Betrayal (A Britt Montero Mystery)
The Britt Montero series continues with this thrilling installment from Pulitzer Prize-winner Edna Buchanan.
When Miami crime reporter Britt Montero reports a missing teenager, she discovers that the case may be related to a string of unsolved disappearances. As Britt delves into the baffling case, an old mystery opens new wounds: she unexpectedly meets two men who knew her deceased father. Through them, Britt learns that he left a diary identifying the man who betrayed him. But the diary isn’t easily possessed; anyone who finds it seems to be marked for murder. At the height of a terrifying category five hurricane, Britt needs to face the man who betrayed her father in order to uncover more than one truth, but will her hunger for justice turn her into the next victim?
Margin of Error (A Britt Montero Mystery)
Pulitzer Prize-winner Edna Buchanan’s heroine Britt Montero once again delves into Miami’s dark side of obsession and murder.
Crime reporter Britt Montero’s dreams have been haunting her. She had to shoot a man to save her own life, and the memory of it is torturing her. Meanwhile, a major Hollywood actor strides into the newsroom—and Britt’s life—hoping to do research for the character he portrays: a secret agent undercover as a Miami crime reporter. An obsessed madwoman stalks the star, and mysterious mishaps, accidents, and deaths push Britt and the star closer together. Both are menaced by the stalker. Or is it someone else who is determined to sabotage the film and kill the star?