Mystery Women Authors

Edna Buchanan

Biography

Edna Buchanan is a Pulitzer prize winning journalist who turned to fiction. Her first two books are autobiographical and tell of the crimes she covered as a reporter for the Miami Herald.

Buchanan's style is hard edged and she is particularly notable for her skill in depicting how devastating crime is for the families of victims.

Books

Nobody Lives Forever

This is a story about three Miami police detectives and how they are affected by a serial killer. Death holds no secrets for Miami Homicide Detective Rick Barrish. But this time, it's different. The victims are his next-door neighbors, slaughtered by an insane serial killer. Aided by two seasoned detectives, one his former lover, Barrish must stop the killer before he strikes again. But this sweltering city harbors secrets even Barrish can't begin to fathom. Secrets that make him vulnerable, desperate and a ready target.

Published Random House 1990

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Britt Montero Mysteries

Contents Under Pressure

The first in a series with Britt Montero - hard nosed crime reporter who never stops asking the hard questions with the consequent trouble that then reins down upon her. Britt is always out to prove that women are good crime reporters - despite her mother's dire warnings. Britt is convinced there's more to the story when a black ex-football star winds up dead after a car chase involving the police.

Published Hyperion 1992

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Miami, It's Murder

The second mystery in the vivid Miami-set series by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. Ace Miami crime reporter Britt Montero investigates a series of bizarre deaths involving terminal sex, electrocution, and freshly poured concrete. And, with the help of a dying detective, Britt probes the unsolved murder of a small girl--which may implicate the front runner in the governor's race.

Published Hyperion 1994

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Suitable for Framing

Britt has taken a clever young reporter under her wing. But Trish Tierney may be helping to make the sensational stories she's breaking. As Britt investigates, she finds herself the prime suspect in a horrifying murder and in the middle of a red-hot story that could cost her more than her career.

Published Hyperion 1995

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Acts of Betrayal

The fourth in the Britt Montero series, Britt finds the man who betrayed her father, as the most destructive hurricane in 50 years bears down on Miami. Just as her father was caught up in the whirlwind of revolution and freedom fighting 30 years earlier, Britt and those around her are caught up by the storm that shatters their lives and changes the face of South Florida forever.

Published Hyperion 1996

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Margin of Error

Researching his role as an undercover government agent posing as a reporter takes a Hollywood movie star into Britt's life. But an obsessed fan stalks the star, and mysterious accidents, mishaps and deaths push the production over-budget. Who is trying to sabotage the film and murder the star? In a thrilling climax, he and Britt are cornered by killers in the dark bowels of the newspaper's vast press room, and the identity of the guilty party astounds them.

Published Hyperion 1997

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Pulse

An electrifying new novel by the author of the Britt Montero mysteries. When Miami CPA Frank Douglas learns that the man responsible for his new heart--wealthy organ donor Roger Alexander--didn't really commit suicide, his search for the facts puts him in deadly peril.

Published Avon Books 1998

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Other Mystery Books

Autobiography

The Corpse Had a Familiar Face

Published Random House 1987

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Never Let Them See You Cry

From Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Edna Buchanan--the national best-selling 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.

Published Random House 1992

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Crime on Deadline

With compelling credibility, some of America's most daring and distinguished crime reporters reveal the behind-the-scenes details of the crime stories that have moved them, disturbed them, and driven them. Edited Lisa Beth Pulitzer

Published Boulevard 1996

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