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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! Reporter Britt Montero lives for this kind of story. But she may die for this one as well. Because each question raises many others - and every hard-won answer reveals secret passions and explosive truths that could doom an overly inquisitive show more journalist with a tendency to leap before she looks. show lessTags
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YOU ONLY DIE TWICE by Edna Buchanan is Book #7 of the Britt Montero series.
Edna Buchanan is an American journalist and writer best known for her crime mystery novels and short stories. She won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for general news reporting for”her versatile and consistently excellent police beat reporting.” Her books reflect the Miami crime scene to perfection.
“When the body of a beautiful woman is found floating offshore, seaweed in her hair, veteran Miami News police-beat reporter Britt Montero gets the call in an engrossing who-was-it that soon becomes an equally intriguing whodunit. Britt senses a good story in the making, and when the body remains unclaimed and foul play is established, she is sure of it. A fingerprint show more check identifies the well-cared-for mermaid as Kaithlin Jordan of the prominent department store family. One problem: she's been dead for 10 years, and her husband is scheduled to be executed for her murder.” (2001 Publisher’s Weekly)
Full of twists and turns and relentless, dogged investigative work on the part of reporter Britt Montero, the book is excellent reading.
This series is crime-writing, police procedural, investigative reporting, mystery writing at its very best. **** show less
Edna Buchanan is an American journalist and writer best known for her crime mystery novels and short stories. She won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for general news reporting for”her versatile and consistently excellent police beat reporting.” Her books reflect the Miami crime scene to perfection.
“When the body of a beautiful woman is found floating offshore, seaweed in her hair, veteran Miami News police-beat reporter Britt Montero gets the call in an engrossing who-was-it that soon becomes an equally intriguing whodunit. Britt senses a good story in the making, and when the body remains unclaimed and foul play is established, she is sure of it. A fingerprint show more check identifies the well-cared-for mermaid as Kaithlin Jordan of the prominent department store family. One problem: she's been dead for 10 years, and her husband is scheduled to be executed for her murder.” (2001 Publisher’s Weekly)
Full of twists and turns and relentless, dogged investigative work on the part of reporter Britt Montero, the book is excellent reading.
This series is crime-writing, police procedural, investigative reporting, mystery writing at its very best. **** show less
Buchanan is a first-rate story teller, but the ending on this one stretches a bit too far.
Very good mystery. Man is on death row for murdering his wife; then ten yrs later, she's alive with a new identity.
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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
- You Only Die Twice
- Original title
- You Only Die Twice
- Original publication date
- 2001
- People/Characters
- Britt Montero; R. J. Jordan
- Important places
- Miami, Florida, USA
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- Popularity
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- Reviews
- 3
- Rating
- (3.86)
- Languages
- English, French, Spanish
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 29
- ASINs
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