Edna Buchanan

(Edna Rydzik)
 

Edna Buchanan attended Montclair State Teachers College and then moved to Florida where she got a job at a small newspaper. Ms. Buchanan became a reporter for the Miami Beach Daily Sun in the late 1960s. In 1970, she was hired as a general assignment and police-beat reporter at the Miami Herald. In 1973, Ms. Buchanan became a police beat reporter, which coincided with the rise of Miami as a center of the international drug trade. Winning a Pulitzer Prize, Ms. Buchanan became one of the best-known crime reporters in the U.S. She discussed some of her assignments in the books, The Corpse Had a Familiar Face (1991) and Never Let Them See You Cry (1993). She has retired from journalism and writes mystery novels. The main character in her crime mystery series is Britt Montero.

Britt Montero
  1. Contents Under Pressure (1992)
  2. Miami, It's Murder (1994)

3. Suitable for Framing (1995)

4. Act of Betrayal (1996)

5. Margin of Error (1997)
  6. Garden of Evil (1999)

7. You Only Die Twice (2001)
  8. The Ice Maiden (2002)


 
 

Craig Burch
  1. Cold Case Squad (2004)

 



  Nobody Lives Forever (1990)
  Naked Came the Manatee (1996) (with Edna Standiford, Brian Antoni, Dave Barry, Tananarive Due, James W Hall, Vicki Hendricks,
Carl Hiaasen, Elmore Leonard, Paul Levine
and Evelyn W Mayerson)
  Pulse (1998)
  Shadows (2005)









The Corpse Had a Familiar Face: Covering Miami, America's Hottest Beat (1991)
Never Let Them See You Cry: More from Miami, America's Hottest Beat (1992)
Vice: Life and Death on the Streets of Miami (1992)

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