Website:Edna Buchanan
Birthplace: Paterson, New Jersey
Current Residence: Miami, FL
Setting: Miami, FL
Genre: Mystery, Crime













Edna Buchanan (1938-) has worked as a reporter for the Miami Beach Daily Sun and as the police beat reporter for the Miami Herald. Buchanan was one of the first female crime reporters in Miami. In 1986, Buchanan won the Pulitzer Prize for ten unrelated police beat stories. Buchanan wrote two non-fiction crime related books before taking a leave of absence from the Herald to write her first novel in 1988. Her first novel, Nobody Lives Forever, earned her an Edgar Award nomination. Buchanan has lived in Miami for more than twenty-five years.




Book List:

Michael Venturi Series

Legally Dead (2008)

Britt Montero Series

Love Kills (2007)
Ice Maiden (2002)
You Only Die Twice (2001)
Garden of Evil (1999)
Margin of Error (1997)
Act of Betrayal (1996)
Suitable for Framing (1995)
Miami, It's Murder (1994)
Contents Under Pressure (1992)

Cold Case Squad Series

Shadows (2005)
Cold Case Squad (2004)

Other

Pulse (2002)
Nobody Lives Forever (1990)

Non-Fiction

Never Let Them See You Cry: More From Miami, America's Hottest Beat (1992)
Corpse Had A Familiar Face: Covering Miami, America's Hottest Beat (1987)

See Edna Buchanan books with a Florida setting.
See also It Takes Place in Florida: Mystery.

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Carolina Garcia-Aguilera
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