Edna Buchanan commanded the "Miami Herald" police beat for eighteen years, during which she reported the stories of 3,000 homicides and won scores of awards, including the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 and the 2001 George Polk Award for Career Achievement in Journalism. She attracted international acclaim for her classic true crime memoirs, "The Corpse Had a Familiar Face", reissued by Pocket Books in 2004, and "Never Let Them See You Cry". Her first novel of suspense, "Nobody Lives Forever", was nominated for an Edgar Award.
In 1992, Buchanan introduced Britt Montero, a Cuban-American reporter, in
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A young mother and child are victims of a fatal daylight hit-and-run by rampaging youths. Britt Montero witnesses the tragedy and relentlessly pursues the story. She befriends a reluctant young gang member surviving alone on the street. But the boy disapp... SEE MORE