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Contents Under Pressure
Contents Under Pressure
Contents Under Pressure
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Contents Under Pressure

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From New York Times–bestselling author comes the first in the hard-hitting series starring a Miami crime reporter is “a crackling good page-turner” (USA Today).
 
A crime reporter for a major Miami newspaper, Cuban-born Britt Montero practically sleeps with a police scanner by her bedside. When a high-speed police chase leads to the death of a black football hero, Britt discovers that what seems like an open-and-shut case is actually an intricate web of racially charged violence.
 
As the city she loves explodes into a major riot, Britt is caught up in life-threatening events that bring the case to a final shocking twist.
 
“First-rate entertainment.” —Kirkus Reviews
LanguageEnglish
Release dateApr 29, 2014
ISBN9781626812468
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Edna Buchanan

Edna Buchanan worked The Miami Herald police beat for eighteen years, during which she won scores of awards, including the Pulitzer Prize and the George Polk Award for Career Achievement in Journalism. Edna attracted international acclaim for her classic true-crime memoirs, The Corpse Has a Familiar Face and Never Let Them See You Cry. Her first novel of suspense, Nobody Lives Forever, was nominated for an Edgar Award.

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    I've read her better works. This one is intriguing, the story explains the condition of Miami journalists (the author being a former crime reporter), most especially female journalists - worse, those who're working at night. It was quite an eye-opener and somewhere along the pages I felt like watching a documentary about journalists, having a soft spot for them since I'm a journalism graduate myself. There is the mystery which Britt was trying to uncover and she deals with cops since that's her assignment. In real life the line between being a journalist and a vigilante is very thin one might not distinguish it from another. Her heroine Britt Montero is comparable to Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum, but the latter is way better and funnier. Mystery, action, suspense and a little comedy is rolled into this novel; but sadly I wasn't eager to read it to finish it in a trice. Britt is There were dragging parts and I prefer her stand alone novels.

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