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Edna Buchanan earned the Pulitzer Prize for Journalism in 1986 - General News Reporting - "for her versatile and consistently excellent police beat reporting." She worked as a writer of The Miami Herald police beat for eighteen years, during which she won scores of awards. Then, she turned her attention to writing suspense stories, using Miami as the background for her stories.

Britt Monterro, Cuban-born Miami police beat journalist, is looking into a 22-year-old cold case. Mary Beth Rafferty, an 8-year-old, was murdered after sexual assault. The teen who found her dead body is now running for governor of the state and many believe he murdered the girl years ago and got away with it. At the same time, Monterro is following a serial rapist who suddenly turns his attention around to his pursuer.

Before long, Monterro notices that some old unsolved police cases are suddenly being resolved when the person thought to be the perp (but with insufficient evidence to prosecute them) die under strange circumstances. Unfortunately, Britt starts to see a pattern. The author uses her knowledge of Miami to good effect in this book. I thought this book moved quickly and kept my attention throughout the book.

This novel earned Edna Buchanan a nomination for the Edgar Award for Best Novel in 1995.
Britt Monterro Series
1.Contents Under Pressure (1992)
**2. Miami, It's Murder (1994)

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