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When Miami crime reporter Britt Montero reports a missing teenager, she discovers that the case may be related to a string of unsolved disappearances. As Britt delves into the baffling case, an old mystery opens new wounds: she unexpectedly meets two men who knew her deceased father. Through them, Britt learns that he left a diary identifying the man who betrayed him. But the diary isn't easily possessed; anyone who finds it seems to be marked for murder. At the height of a terrifying show more category five hurricane, Britt needs to face the man who betrayed her father in order to uncover more than one truth, but will her hunger for justice turn her into the next victim? show lessTags
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Britt Montero, crime reporter, worked on a story about missing teenage boys, all bonde, blue-eyed and last seen in Miami. She's also assigned to write about Juan Carlo Reyes, influential politican who fled Cuba. These two stories run in parallel and are resolved in the end. This was an interesting story with a feisty Britt Montero that included Miami culture, Cuban politics, a bit of family trouble, and a bit of romance. I thought the ending was over the top but overall I still liked the story.
WOW ... Although I suspected the burial ground I didn't expect the ending. A little too neatly wrapped up, but Buchanan is a first-rate story-teller.
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Edna Rydzik Buchanan was born in 1939 near Paterson, New Jersey. She attended creative writing classes at Montclair State Teacher's College. Buchanan was one of the first female crime reporters in Miami. Her police reporting for the Miami Herald won her a Pulitzer Prize in 1986. In 1979, Buchanan produced her first book, Carr: Five Years of Rape show more and Murder; From the Personal Account of Robert Frederick Car III. This nonfiction book recounts the story of a convicted rapist and murderer. In 1987, she published her memoirs, The Corpse Had a Familiar Face: Covering Miami, America's Hottest Beat. That book was followed in 1991 by Never Let Them See You Cry: More From Miami's Hottest Beat. Buchanan's crime novels include Nobody Lives Forever and Pulse. She is perhaps best known, however, for her mystery novels featuring a Cuban American crime reporter, Britt Montero. These titles include Contents Under Pressure; Miami, It's Murder; Suitable for Framing; Margin of Error, and Act of Betrayal. She has been a contributor to several magazines, including Fame, Family Circle, Cosmopolitan and Rolling Stone. Buchanan has received awards from the American Bar Association, National Newspaper Association, and the Society of Professional Journalists. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Act of Betrayal
- Original title
- Act of Betrayal
- Original publication date
- 1996
- People/Characters
- Britt Montero; Alex Reyes; Lottie Dane; Onnie
- Important places
- Miami, Florida, USA
- Epigraph
- And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. --Job 1:19
- Dedication
- For Renee Turolla, David M. Thornburgh, and Peggy Thornburgh. No writer could have better friends.
- First words
- The sweet little old lady was dead, shot in the face by her Kenmore range when she opened the oven door to investigate the explosions inside.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"Yeah, it is," he said, and held my hand.
- Blurbers
- Rule, Ann
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- Dutch, English, Russian
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- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
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- 22
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