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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The green-eyed daughter of a Cuban patriot killed by Castro's firing squad; she has a tender spot for the city's underdogs, but is smart and tough enough to pursue a story no matter where it takes her. When cops on the midnight shift chase a black motoris... SEE MORE