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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."
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| Legally Dead |
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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.
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Ninth in the Britt Montero series:
Love Kills |
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The Cold Case Squad meets Britt Montero!
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Second in the Cold Case Series:
Shadows |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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!
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Fifth in the Britt Montero Mystery Series:
Margin of Error |
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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 |
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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 |
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Britt finds herself caught up in deadly car-jackings and gang shootings, and jailed for murder, suitably framed.
Hyperion 1995 |
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| The Ice Maiden |
| by Sue Wilder |
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Edna Buchana's Britt Montero series celebrates a decade of excellence with The Ice Maiden.
Britt is a reporter covering the police beat for the Miami News. The "Ice Maiden" is a sculptor and the victim of an old unsolved crime. The Cold Case Squad is the section in the police department responsible for the investigation of the crime. Buchanan does a wonderful job of weaving all three into a seamless story.
Many crime fiction series focus on the main character's personality and quirks, often to the detriment of telling the story. Buchanan's journalistic skills translate into a wonderful ability to tell the story. Although The Ice Maiden is written first person narrative, focus is on the story and not just Britt.
The Ice Maiden is action packed, containing chases, medical examiner scenes and lots of confrontations in dark palces. The location, of course, is Miami, with weather, street scenes and sunsets.
This reader has come to know Britt well since the first book in the series, Contents Under Pressure, was published in 1992. Although she is a realist, she likes to see justice done. She takes the reader into the inner workings of the police department and the detectives who work there.
The Ice Maiden was hard to put down. The reader does not have to read the previous books first. It can be read as a stand alone. However, once read, the reader may want to go back and read other Britt Monteros. |
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| Posted 24-09-2003 |
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