Edna Buchananová se proslavila jako reportérka z místa činu, její práce v Miami Herald jí vynesla Pulitzerovu cenu a způsobila, že se stala jednou z nejznámějších kriminálních reportérek v zemi. Během své kariéry zachytila vzestup Miami jako centra mezinárodního obchodu s drogami. V současné době píše napínavé detektivní romány s Brittem Monterem jako hlavní postavou, přičemž čerpá ze svých bohatých zkušeností z novinářské práce. Její příběhy jsou naplněny realismem a autentickým pohledem na temnější stránky života.
The Cold Case Squad of the Miami Police Department delves into a 45-year-old murder mystery, uncovering chilling evidence that suggests the killer remains at large. As the detectives piece together the past, they face unexpected twists that reveal the case is more relevant than ever. This gripping narrative, penned by a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, combines suspense with the intricacies of long-buried secrets, highlighting the relentless pursuit of justice.
A shocking murder mystery unfolds as the body of socialite Kaithlin Jordan is discovered in Miami Beach, despite her husband's conviction for her murder a decade earlier. Reporter Britt Montero, eager to uncover the truth, finds herself entangled in a web of secrets and dangerous revelations. Each answer she uncovers raises more questions, putting her life at risk as she navigates hidden passions and explosive truths that threaten to consume her.
The recently discovered remains of a controversial kidnapper and a groom with the habit of losing his brides puts reporter Britt Montero on a collision course with danger and her one-time rival in love, Lieutenant K.C. Riley.
Britt Montero is an ace crime reporter who sleeps with a police scanner by her bedside -- and who can't keep off a hot story, even if the book has already been closed. Miami is her turf, with it's sweltering nights and seething passions that can erupt without warning into mind-numbing violence. Now a black ex-football star and beloved local hero is dead after an alleged high-speed police chase -- and Britt's city explodes around her. The facts are hidden somewhere among the deadly lies, official cover-ups, and the vigilante crimes of rogue night shift cops. And Britt's determined to pursue the truth through the smoking tropical wreckage -- even as it leads her perilously close to unexpected revelations of conspiracy and corruption that could burn her to the bone.
After taking brash young reporter, Trish Ainsley, under her wing, journalist-sleuth Britt Montero discovers that her prote+a7ge+a7 may be creating the sensational stories that she has been covering, a situation that becomes further complicated when Trish turns up murdered.
"The wide front door hung open, a seductive invitation to a dark interior veiled by dust motes that glittered in the spectral greenish glow..." The Shadows is a historic 1920s house that inspires preservationists' dreams -- and developers' schemes. Built during Prohibition by a notorious rumrummer who vanished at sea, it was inherited by his son, a local athlete and war hero who lived down his father's wild reputation. He served a successful term as Miami mayor and raised his four young children at the Shadows -- until a shotgun ambush on a hot summer night forty-four years ago. His murder was never solved. Since then, only secrets and whispers have inhabited the Shadows. Now, a resourceful young preservationist approaches the Miami Police Department's Cold Case Squad to help block a developer's plan to bulldoze the Shadows and build high-rise towers. The detectives visit the long-abandoned pioneer house, now surrounded by a wild and overgrown subtropical forest. They discover the rumrunner's secret limestone cellar, a tunnel to Biscayne Bay, and seven small, heartbreaking new mysteries -- a lost generation. Cold Case Squad Lt. K. C. Riley and her detectives seek out the murdered man's widow and children for answers. All are evasive and paranoid, haunted by lies, guilt, and tangled pasts that each recalls differently. Ultimately the squad finds that the killer is still out there, and the old, cold case is hotter than ever. In another dazzling example of Edna Buchanan's masterful weaving of stories and histories, Cold Case Squad Detective Sam Stone uncovers a still violent and long-hidden connection between his parents' murders when he was a child and their summer as civil rights workers in Mississippi more than thirty years ago. "Life would be simple," Buchanan writes, "if people told the truth." But for those who live among the shadows, the truth is never simple. Shadows is Edna Buchanan's most suspenseful novel.
( True Crime. Der wahre Kriminalfall). 414 S.
