What do a menacing housewife, a kinky bad girl, a shy child, and a cold-blooded killer have in common? Veteran Miami homicide detective Rick Barrish sets out for the answer as he investigates a series of seemingly unrelated murders in his own neighborhood and hunts down an elusive killer in…
Pulse
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for her crime reporting, Edna Buchanan now occupies a place of honor in the pantheon of American suspense novelists; a master storyteller whose chillingly inventive plots hold a reader spellboound from the opening word.Frank Douglas has everything to live for. But someone else had to…
Cold Case Squad
“Like all things good and bad in the world, it began with a woman…” And so begins the first chapter of Edna Buchanan’s Cold Case Squad, a new suspense novel that features a special homicide unit that breathes new life into old cases. A man and a woman are shot…
Shadows
In order to block a high-rise developer’s plans to bulldoze the Shadows — a gorgeous 1920s mansion in Miami — a resourceful young preservationist approaches the police department’s Cold Case Squad. Years ago, the high-profile owner of the Shadows was murdered and the crime has remained unsolved. Never content to…
Garden of Evil
While attempting an arrest, a sheriff is slain by an enigmatic young woman who promptly vanishes into the northern Florida landscape. As the story comes over the wire, reporter Britt Montero is intrigued. Few copkillers escape so easily.The murders continue. Men are lured into sex by the same woman, their…
You Only Die Twice
The perfect, nude corpse of a beautiful woman washes up on a pristine Miami Beach — her body tanned and shapely, her nails elegantly manicured. The problem is that the victim, Kaithlin Jordan, was murdered ten years ago. And her convicted killer — her husband, R. J. Jordan, scion of…
The Ice Maiden
A chance encounter with a stranger changes the life of reporter Britt Montero forever. The encounter is at Miami’s morgue, where the unidentified 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…
Love Kills
Attempting to recover from her lover’s death on a Caribbean island, ace crime reporter Britt Montero teams up with the Cold Case Squad on a murder investigation while simultaneously tracking down a serial killer who is targeting honeymooners.
Act of Betrayal
When Miami crime reporter Britt Montero reports a missing teenager, she discovers that the case may be related to a string of unsolved disappearances. As Britt delves into the baffling case, an old mystery opens new wounds: she unexpectedly meets two men who knew her deceased father—who was executed long…
Margin of Error
Crime reporter Britt Montero had to shoot a man to save her own life, and the memory of it is tormenting her. So when a major Hollywood actor strides into the newsroom, hoping to do research for the character he portrays, the seemingly cushy job is given to Britt in…