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  • Bibliography:
    18 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 1990
  • Latest Book:
    September 2014
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Full Series List in Order

A Britt Montero Mystery

1 - Contents Under Pressure (Sep-1992)
2 - Miami, It's Murder (Feb-1994)
3 - Suitable for Framing (Feb-1995)
4 - Act of Betrayal (Feb-1996)
5 - Margin of Error (Jun-1997)
6 - Garden of Evil (Nov-1999)
7 - You Only Die Twice (Mar-2001)
8 - The Ice Maiden (Oct-2002)
9 - Love Kills (Jun-2007)

Cold Case Squad

1 - Cold Case Squad (Jun-2004)
2 - Shadows (Jun-2005)

Book List in Order: 18 titles



  • Death held no secrets for Miami Homicide detective Rick Barrish. But this time, it was different. The victims were his next door neighbors, murdered by an insane serial killer. And if the pattern continued, his beautiful but troubled girlfriend, Laur...



  • Britt Montero is a crime reporter for a major Miami newspaper, and an oddity in a man's domain - a blonde, green-eyed Cuban-American woman tough enough to investigate even the most terrifying of homicides, but with a tender spot for the city's underd...



  • Miami felony is red hot and hopping these days, leaving ace newspaper reporter Britt Montero--who has been known to beat the cops to local crime scenes--with an overflowing plate. The Downtown Rapist is assaulting unsuspecting women in office buildin...



  • Pulitzer Prize--winner Edna Buchanan leaves no body unturned as she exposes the hot and steamy streets of Miami. In Suitable for Framing, Britt Montero--the tough-as-nails police beat reporter--finds herself targeted by a scheming apprentice with eye...



  • When Britt Montero begins to investigate the disappearance of a teenage boy, she discovers a pattern of missing youngsters of similar age and 1 appearance. As Britt probes this baffling cake, she meets people who once knew her father, and the mystery...



  • In Margin of Error, Britt Montero--the tough-as-nails police beat reporter--finds herself attached to a major Hollywood star about to film an action movie in Miami. The character he portrays brings him into the newsroom, and into Britt's life, to res...



  • Joining together for a good cause brings out the best in today's top mystery and suspense writers! For this marvelously entertaining anthology, these outstanding contributors rose to a unique literary challenge: each penned a tale that ingeniously fe...



  • If Daniel Alexander had not committed suicide, Miami businessman Frank Douglas would never have lived to see his forty-fifth birthday. Now, with a donated heart beating strong and sure in his chest, Frank has been given a second chance-but no peace. ...



  • In the intense heat of an oppressive Miami summer, crime reporter Britt Montero is ice cold, her writing relegated to the inner pages of the daily that employs her. But now there's a hot story she's just dying to get her hands on. A female serial sla...






  • What was the nude, recently slain body of Kaithlin Jordan doing spoiling the pristine turquoise waters of Miami Beach -- especially when the dead socialite's convicted killer husband is sitting on Death Row for having murdered her...ten years ago! Re...



  • Fourteen years ago, two teenagers on a Christmas Eve first date were abducted, and only one lived through the ordeal. The lone surviving victim, Sunny Hartley, became a wealthy sculptor, but the reclusive "ice maiden" will not talk about what happene...



  • "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 an...




  • 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 h...



  • "Where the hell is Britt Montero?" So says Sgt. Craig Burch of Miami's Cold Case Squad at the end of the first chapter of Edna Buchanan's new novel, Love Kills. So have readers been wondering since reporter Britt Montero vanished after her lov...



  • U.S. Marshal Michael Venturi of the Witness Protection Program relocates a mobster, now a government witness, to a small rural town after creating a new identity for him. The man proves to be a monster unleashed on an unsuspecting community. The resu...



  • "We belong together," he said. "Yes," she whispered fervently in his ear. "We do." 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, w...



  • True stories of crime in Miami by the Pulitzer Prizeā€"winning author of The Corpse Had a Familiar Face.   Set against the neon backdrop of the South Florida city where Miami Herald reporter Edna Buchanan covered the police beat for nearly two d...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Edna Buchanan has published 18 books.

Edna Buchanan does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Never Let Them See You Cry, was published in September 2014.

The first book by Edna Buchanan, Nobody Lives Forever, was published in February 1990.

Yes. Edna Buchanan has 2 series.