EDNA BUCHANAN

For eighteen years, Pulitzer Prize-winner Edna Buchanan had one of the most exciting, frightening, and heartbreaking jobs a newspaperwoman could have -- working the police beat for the Miami Herald. Having covered more crimes than most cops, Buchanan garnered a reputation as a savvy, gritty writer with a unique point of view and inimitable style. Now, back in print after many years, The Corpse Had a Familiar Face is her classic collection of true stories, as witnessed and reported by Buchanan herself. From cold-blooded murder, to violence in the heat of passion, to the everyday insanity of the city streets, Edna Buchanan reveals it all in her own trademark blend of compassionate reporting, hard-nosed investigation, and wry humor that has made her a legend in the world of journalism.

"Like all things good and bad in the world, it began with a woman..." And so begins the first chapter of Edna Buchanans 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 dead at a strip club in Miami Beach. A few hours later, an explosion in a garage rocks a childs 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 the Miami Police Departments Cold Case Squad -- which Buchanan fans will remember from The Ice Maiden -- and complains that shes been seeing her husband everywhere she goes. Trouble is, hes been dead for twelve years. In Buchanans characteristic voice, "Some guys just dont know when to let go." As the Cold Case Squad unearths 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 -- readers get to know the three cops and their boss: veteran homicide detective Sergeant Craig Burch, whose marriage has turned into a case he cant solve; Detective Sam Stone, for whom the past will always be a mystery; Detective Pete Nazario, airlifted out of Cuba during "Operation Pedro Pan" in the 1960s; and Lieutenant K. C. Riley, for whom one case will never grow cold. Edna Buchanan has been thrilling readers since her Pulitzer Prize-winning stint as a crime reporter for The Miami Herald. The Chicago Tribune once raved that "few writers can touch Buchanan," to which The Washington Post Book World seemed to respond, "I doubt if anyone else is doing it better." In Cold Case Squad, Edna Buchanan, the woman the Los Angeles Daily News calls "the Queen of crime," delivers unlikely killers, near-perfect murders, and her most suspenseful novel yet.

"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 fathers 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 Departments Cold Case Squad to help block a developers 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 rumrunners 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 mans 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 Buchanans 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 Buchanans most suspenseful novel.

From Pulitzer Prize winner Edna Buchanan, the novel she has always wanted to write: the gripping saga of star-crossed lovers across generations.From Pulitzer Prize winner Edna Buchanan, the novel she has always wanted to write: the gripping saga of star-crossed lovers across generations. A century ago, when Indians and alligators roamed frontier Miami, the legendary John Ashley was accused of murder and sentenced to hang. He insisted he was innocent and went on the run with his sweetheart, Laura Upthegrove.John and Laura became the most notorious, colorful, and compelling figures in Floridas violent outlaw history. Their sensual and dreamy saga is juxtaposed with the taut and suspenseful story of their fictional descendants who share the same love and dangers a hundred years later. In todays Miami, Homicide Sergeant John Ashley investigates a millionaires spectacular murder and instantly recognizes a stunning model linked to the case as the girl who has haunted his dreams since childhood. Her name is Laura, and the lightning-fast attraction is supernaturally mutual.The homicide case goes bad, Ashley is falsely accused of murder just like his ancestor, and the new lovers go on the run as history repeats itself. The question is, how powerful is the past? Do the present-day renegades stand a chance? Can we change our own destiny? Or must the end always be the same for dangerous people in dangerous times?In a sweeping epic that explores the inevitability of fate, A Dark and Lonely Place draws the reader into an unforgettable world of intrigue, drama, romance, and tragedy.

Fiel a su estilo, Britt Montero ha llegado a la escena del crimen con la velocidad de un rayo. Las radios de la policía todavía informaban sobre la aparición de un cadáver en la playa, cuando la joven e impulsiva reportera del Miami News ya posaba sus pies sobre las calidas arenas de Miami Beach, en busca de una gran noticia. En esta ocasion, su oportunidad de encontrar un bombazo informativo tiene la forma de una hermosa mujer, arrastrada por la marea hasta la playa. Para los habitantes de Miami, acostumbrados al flujo de los fugitivos balseros cubanos, la osadia de algunos turistas y los ajustes de cuentas de los traficantes de la ciudad, el descubrimiento de un muerto flotando sobre las olas no constituye un suceso excepcional. Pero una vez contemplada la elegancia de aquella mujer y constatar que nadie reclama sus restos, Britt Montero sabe que las respuestas no seran tan sencillas. Una hermosura con tanto estilo, simplemente, no puede esfumarse sin que nadie se de cuenta. La sorpresa mayor, sin embargo, aun esta por llegar. A traves del detective Emery Rycheck, un oficial curtido en su trabajo y uno de sus mejores informantes, la inquieta periodista conoce el primer informe sobre el caso. La victima se llama Kaithlin Jordan y la autopsia confirma el homicidio. En sintesis, nada nuevo. Salvo que, diez años atras, la misma mujer habia desaparecido y su marido, acusado de su asesinato, lleva desde entonces esperando en el corredor de la muerte. Pero, ¿como pudo ser condenado un hombre a la pena capital, sin aparecer el cadaver de su esposa? ¿Quien fue y como vivio esta enigmatica mujer durante estos largos diez años?. Britt Montero sabe que estas son las mejores preguntas para el comienzo de una historia apasionante. Sin olvidar que, esta vez, alguien se ha asegurado de asesinar, definitivamente, a la escurridiza Kaithlin Jordan.

From the Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist and bestselling author of Contents Under Pressure comes a riveting tale of love, obsession, dogged determination, and calculated murder (Miami Herald) following the Cold Case Squad and Miami journalist Britt Montero.When a bulldozer in the Everglades turns up a skeleton that belonged to an infamous kidnapperthe Custody Crusaderthe Cold Case Squad is brought in to investigate. Britt Montero, a reporter for the Miami News, was the last person to see him alive, and the detectives have questions that only she can answer. But the problem is, Britt vanished after her loverhomicide cop Kendall McDonaldwas murdered.Recovering from her loss on a Caribbean island, Britt stumbles upon a disposable camera with photos of a happy young couple. When the news reports the disappearance of newlyweds at sea, Britt realizes the pictures in the camera are of the lost bride and groom. After the groom is rescuedaloneBritt and the grieving widower form a fragile bond, until Britt uncovers a shocking secret.As Britts hunt for the Honeymoon Killer collides with the Cold Case Squads pursuit of the Crusaders murderer, Britt finds herself desperate and in danger. With nowhere left to turn, Britt must seek help from the one person she never wanted to face: Cold Case Squad Lieutenant K. C. Riley, Kendalls childhood sweetheart. To surviveand to protect the life of someone they both care aboutthe two women must put aside their past and face the danger together.

The first installment in the Michael Venuri series from Pulitzer Prizewinning author Edna Buchanan, following former federal agent Michael Venuri, who quits the Witness Protection Program to become a freelance identity-change expert.Former United States Marshal Michael Venuri is still grieving the sudden loss of his wife and their unborn child when he learns of two missing children in rural Vermont. Flooded with guilt when he realizes its the same town where he previously relocated a protected hit man with perverse tendencies and a fondness for little girls, he escapes to Miami.In Miami, he meets a NASA employee with a tainted reputation from being blamed for the death of two fellow astronauts. Venturi decides to help the man fake his death in order to give him a new life with a new identity. Pleased with the idea of using his Witness Protection Program skills to help someone get a fresh start, Venturi becomes a freelance identity-change expert, helping deserving individuals fake their deaths to start over. Each death is faked in a different unique, ingenious, and often spectacular manner. Venturi only requires that his clients not contact anyone from their previous life, including him. But its not long until something evil begins to stalk his clients.Is it someone he refused to help? Are more innocents in danger because he tried to atone for a history that haunted him? Is he the target? Or is someone hunting one of the new people he relocated?