Edna Buchanan

Edna Buchanan (born March 16, 1949 in New York City ) is an American journalist and author.

She was one of the first female crime reporters for the Miami Herald and won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for "General Reporting" . Her first novel was published in 1987, the crime series around the main character Britt Montero began in 1992. Buchanan has now worked as a writer and has given up her journalistic job. Not all novels are available in Germany; the translated ones are published by Bastei-Lübbe .

Works

• 1979 - Carr, Five Years of Rape and Murder: from the personal account of Robert Frederick Carr III
• 1987 - The Corpse had a Familiar Face: Covering Miami, America's Hottest Beat (The corpse looked very familiar to me)
• 1990 - Nobody Lives Forever (Eng. Nobody Lives Forever )
• 1992 - Never Let Them See You Cry: More from Miami, America's Hottest Beat (Never let them see your tears)
• 1992 Vice: Life and Death on the Streets of Miami
• 1996 - Naked Came the Manatee ( chain novel with Dave Barry , Les Standiford, Paul Levine, James W. Hall, Carolina Hospital, Evelyn Mayerson, Tananarive Due, Brian Antoni, Vicki Hendricks, John Dufresne, Elmore Leonard and Carl Hiaasen )
• 1998 - Pulse (German shadow heart)
• 1999 - Murder in the Sunshine State
• 2008 - Legally Dead
• 2011 - A Dark and Lonely Place

Britt Montero series:

• 1992 - Contents under Pressure (German bull heat)
• 1994 - Miami, it's Murder (dt. Miami Psycho)
• 1995 - Suitable for framing (German snake dance )
• 1996 - Act of Betrayal (German Stormwind)
• 1997 - Margin of Error (German Banshee)
• 1999 - Garden of Evil
• 2001 - You only Die Twice
• 2002 - The Ice Maiden
• 2004 - Cold Case Squad
• 2005 - Shadows
• 2007 - Love Kills

Web links

• Official website (English)