Edna  Buchanan
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Pulitzer Prize-winning and Edgar-nominee Edna Buchanan, continues her mystery series starring Britt Montero, a crime reporter for a major newspaper located in Miami. As a Miami native with twenty years of crime reporting experience herself, Buchanan knows firsthand the city, the violence and the players.

The New York Times Book Review says "Britt’s charm is her frenetic energy, her wicked curiosity, and insatiable appetite for a good story."

Legally Dead
 
 
U.S. Marshal Michael Venturi of the Witness Protection Program relocates a mobster to a small rural town. After the man proves to be a monster, Venturi leaves the Marshals Service and assembles a team to secretly create new identities for innocent people. It is not too long before evil begins to stalk Venturi and his legally dead clients.

Signed first printing
 
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Ninth in the Britt Montero series:
Love Kills
 
 
The Cold Case Squad meets Britt Montero!

 
Paperback / $7.99
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Second in the Cold Case Series:
Shadows
 
 
Shadows is the second novel in Edna Buchanan's cold case squad series.

Shadows is a gorgeous old 1920s Miami home, targeted by developers intent on turning its' three waterfront acres into three high-rise monstrosities. A young preservationist asks the Miami Police Department's Cold Case Squad to help stop the developers. Forty-five years ago, a prominent businessman and former mayor was gunned down in the driveway. The killer was never caught.

Investigation turns up yet another murderer who is still out there. This cold case turns red hot.

 
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First in a the Cold Case series:
Cold Case Squad
 
 
Two people are shot dead at a strip club in Miami Beach. A few hours later, an explosion in a garage rocks a child's birthday party and burns a father of three to death. The murders go unsolved and the fire is chalked up to an accident.
But was it an accident? Twelve years later, a blonde walks in to Miami Police Department's Cold Case Squad and complains that she's been seeing her husband everywhere she goes. Trouble is, he's been dead for twelve years.
As the four members of the Cold Case Squade unearth the details of the strip-club deaths and the dead or missing father - as well as the unsolved killings of a series of little old ladies - Edna Buchanan delivers unlikely killers, near-perfect murders and her most suspenseful novel yet.
 
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Eighth in the Britt Montero Mystery Series:
The Ice Maiden
 
 
A chance encounter with a stranger changes Britt's life forever. The encounter is at Miami's morgue, where the stranger lies dead. His unusual old scars capture her curiosity - the dead man clearly had a tale to tell.
This thief, who was accidentally electrocuted, may be the key that unlocks the long-sought secrets of a sensational cold murder mystery unsolved for more than 14 years.
 
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Seventh in the Britt Montero Mystery Series:
You Only Die Twice
 
 
A murdered woman, drowned off Miami Beach, is positively identified through fingerprints to be Lily Jordan, a mysterious lady who was killed ten years ago. Her husband, who was tried, convicted, and sentenced to die for the crime, resides on Death Row only a few short weeks away from his execution. For Britt, it looks like a killer story. Now all she has to find out, is where Lily Jordan has been for the last decade - and who killed her for real.
Signed by the author. William Morrow 2001 1st Ed.
 
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Sixth in the Britt Montero Mystery Series:
Garden of Evil
 
 
While attempting an arrest, a sheriff is slain by an enigmatic young woman who promptly vanishes into the northern Florida landscape. The murders continue. Men are lured into sex by the same woman, their lifeless bodies dumped, and their valuables gone.

Dubbed the Kiss Me Killer because she leaves lipstick traces on the bullets she uses, the murderer calls Britt to tell her side of the story. And so the chase begins!

Avon 1st Ed.
 
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Fifth in the Britt Montero Mystery Series:
Margin of Error
 
 
Britt finds herself attached to a major Hollywood star about to film an action movie in Miami, and stalked by an obsessed madwoman.

Hyperion 1997.
 
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Fourth in the Britt Montero Mystery Series:
Act of Betrayal
 
 
When Britt begins to investigate the disappearance of a teenage boy, she discovers a pattern of missing youngsters.

Hyperion 1996 1st Ed. F/F, in mylar dustjacket cover. Signed.
 
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Third in the Britt Montero Mystery Series:
Suitable For Framing
 
 
Britt finds herself caught up in deadly car-jackings and gang shootings, and jailed for murder, suitably framed.

Hyperion 1995
 
Antiquarian and Collectible / $30.00
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Garden of Evil
by Joanne Sinchuk
 
I have been a big fan of Edna Buchanan’s Britt Montero series since 1994 when she wrote Miami, It’s Murder. Like many mystery readers who discover an author they really like, I then went back and read the first in the series, Contents Under Pressure, and the others since then.

But she hasn’t written a Britt Montero since Margin of Error in 1997. So imagine my thrill to find out the new Buchanan is not only in the Montero series, but one of her very best.

In Garden of Evil, Buchanan tackles the issue of a female serial killer who lures men into sex, and then blasts them away. Obviously, a woman with an issue! The only clue she leaves is lipstick on the bullets, and uses the victims’ cars and credit cards as she travels across the state of Florida.

Of course, Britt is dying to get into this woman’s head, find out what makes her tick, and publish her story. She manages to not only do this, but help apprehend her in a great chase scene all over the state of Florida.

And the ending leaves you with a chill to your soul!

A great book, and high on my list of recommendations.
6th in the series Signed. Avon 1st Ed. $24.00
 
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Posted 02-06-2003
 
 
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