Edna Buchanan Knihy

The wide front door hung open, inviting exploration of a dark interior veiled in dust motes and a spectral glow. The Shadows, a historic 1920s house, embodies the dreams of preservationists and the schemes of developers. Built during Prohibition by a notorious rumrunner who vanished at sea, it was inherited by his son, a local athlete and war hero who overcame his father's wild reputation. After serving as Miami's mayor and raising four children there, his life ended in a shotgun ambush on a hot summer night, a murder that remains unsolved. Since then, only secrets have lingered within its walls. A determined young preservationist seeks the help of the Miami Police Department's Cold Case Squad to prevent a developer from demolishing the Shadows for high-rise towers. The detectives explore the abandoned house, now ensconced in a wild subtropical forest, uncovering the rumrunner's secret limestone cellar, a tunnel to Biscayne Bay, and seven new mysteries tied to a lost generation. Lt. K. C. Riley and her team interview the murdered man's widow and children, who are evasive and haunted by their pasts. As they delve deeper, they discover the killer is still at large, and the cold case is more urgent than ever. In a gripping narrative, Detective Sam Stone uncovers a violent connection between his parents' murders and their past as civil rights workers, revealing that for those living among shadows, the truth is never simple.

A shocking murder mystery unfolds as the body of socialite Kaithlin Jordan is discovered in Miami Beach, despite her husband's conviction for her murder a decade earlier. Reporter Britt Montero, eager to uncover the truth, finds herself entangled in a web of secrets and dangerous revelations. Each answer she uncovers raises more questions, putting her life at risk as she navigates hidden passions and explosive truths that threaten to consume her.

The recently discovered remains of a controversial kidnapper and a groom with the habit of losing his brides puts reporter Britt Montero on a collision course with danger and her one-time rival in love, Lieutenant K.C. Riley.

Britt Montero is an ace crime reporter who sleeps with a police scanner by her bedside -- and who can't keep off a hot story, even if the book has already been closed. Miami is her turf, with it's sweltering nights and seething passions that can erupt without warning into mind-numbing violence. Now a black ex-football star and beloved local hero is dead after an alleged high-speed police chase -- and Britt's city explodes around her. The facts are hidden somewhere among the deadly lies, official cover-ups, and the vigilante crimes of rogue night shift cops. And Britt's determined to pursue the truth through the smoking tropical wreckage -- even as it leads her perilously close to unexpected revelations of conspiracy and corruption that could burn her to the bone.

After taking brash young reporter, Trish Ainsley, under her wing, journalist-sleuth Britt Montero discovers that her prote+a7ge+a7 may be creating the sensational stories that she has been covering, a situation that becomes further complicated when Trish turns up murdered.

Miami crime reporter Britt Montero investigates bizarre deaths, the unsolved sex murder of a little girl that could implicate the prime candidate in the race for governor, and a serial rapist who may have her on his list.

( True Crime. Der wahre Kriminalfall). 414 S.