Miami is a city teeming with life and with a restless energy that is undeniable. A city where the skies are always blue and life and death are seldom simple. Miami is also the home of Britt Montero, a feisty, charismatic Cuban-American crime reporter.In Miami, It's Murder, Britt is investigating a series of bizarre deaths involving sex, electrocution, and freshly poured concrete. With a retired, terminally ill detective as her friend and source, Britt probes the unsolved rape and murder of a little girl, which ultimately may implicate the rich and powerful front-runner in the governor's race. She also follows the trail of a terrifying serial rapist who ambushes career women in the bathrooms of the gleaming downtown skyscrapers that spear the Miami skyline.This quest takes her from the sterile and antiseptic police crime lab with its forensic experts, into the dark heart of Santeria - a blood-fueled religion linked to spells, symbols, sacrifice, and the occult. Enraged by Britt's stories, the rapist escalates his violence and focuses his obsession on her. Stalked by the shadowy rapist, on the trail of a serial killer, Britt comes ever closer to learning the shocking truth as tensions mount and the stories intersect with edge-of-the-seat suspense and an astonishing conclusion.This may be the second or third book that I've read by Edna Buchanan and I've enjoyed them all. In my opinion, this book was very well-written, with likable characters; and an action-packed, intricate plot that led in directions that I wasn't expecting. I give this book an A+! Edna Buchanan certainly knows her stuff as an author.
No writer is better than Edna Buchanan in writing about Miami where she commanded the Miami Herald for eighteen years.She reported 3,000 homicides and won the Pulitzer in 1986. In 1992, she introduced Britt Montero, the heroine of fourteen novels. This novel opens with the cold case murder of eight-year-old Mary Beth Rafferty. Her friend and Detective Dan never give up on unsolved cases. A politician running for Governer was a tenage boy when he found Mary's body. Now, Britt and Dan try to prove he is a murderer before he can be elected. Since her plots are so intricate, there is also a serial rapest,a man electocuted, the dark Santeria blood-fueled religon linked to spells, sacrifice, amd the occult, bullets exploding from a van on fire on the freeway and general mayhem.
What do You think about Miami, It's Murder (2000)?
A good mystery showcasing the life of a newspaper reporter and her relations with the police and criminals. Interesting how her story about a serial rapist makes her the target of the rapist. Lots of other deaths are found to be connected. The aspirations of a politician are also brought to light along with his involvement in a long ago murder. Britt's friendships with a retired homicide detective helps her a bit but then she finds out he has connections to some old cases with connections to some recent murders.
—Wanda
This is the second book in the ‘Britt Montero’ mysteries. Britt is a Cuban-American heroine determined to find the truth working as a newspaper reporter covering the police beat for her Miami newspaper. She is terrorized by a serial rapists escalation, forced into Santeria rituals, investigating bizarre deaths, all while investigating a cold case murder of an eight-year-old girl somehow related to a politician running for governer. The character building was clever and useful. I am enjoying the series so far. The plot was intricately complex and caused the tension to escalate toward an astonishing conclusion.
—Gramy
