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Britt Montero
The Britt Montero series by Edna Buchanan has 10 books and is best read in publication order, starting with Contents Under Pressure (1992).
- Books
- 10 books
- First published
- 1992
- Status
- completed
- Last checked
Start here: Contents Under Pressure (1992) — then read straight through in publication order.
Reading order
The order the books were released — the default way to read the series.
- Book 1:
Contents Under Pressure
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Miami, It's Murder
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Suitable for Framing
Alternative text for cover: Cover of Suitable for Framing - Book 4:
Act of Betrayal
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Margin of Error
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Garden of Evil
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You Only Die Twice
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The Ice Maiden
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Love Kills
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Dead Man's Daughter
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About the Britt Montero series
Britt Montero is a Cuban-American police reporter for a thinly fictionalized Miami newspaper -- and Edna Buchanan's most direct piece of fiction, drawn straight from her own two decades on the Miami Herald's police beat. Book after book, Britt works crime scenes and courtrooms as a journalist rather than a cop or PI, chasing down the story behind Miami's murders with sources, instinct, and a reporter's stubborn refusal to let a case go cold -- the same qualities that won Buchanan a Pulitzer Prize for her real reporting.
The series is soaked in a Miami Buchanan knew better than almost anyone: heat, corruption, immigrant communities, and a crime rate her real journalism helped chronicle for the Herald. Reviewers consistently praised the books' procedural authenticity -- the newsroom detail, the cop-shop politics, the sense that Britt's cases could have run as real headlines -- because in Buchanan's case, versions of many of them nearly did.
Frequently asked questions
How many Britt Montero books are there?
Ten, published between 1992 and 2018.
Is Britt Montero based on Edna Buchanan herself?
Britt is a fictional Miami crime reporter, but Buchanan drew directly on her own two decades covering the police beat for the Miami Herald, for which she won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for General News Reporting.
What order should I read the Britt Montero series in?
Publication order: Contents Under Pressure, Miami It's Murder, Suitable for Framing, Act of Betrayal, Margin of Error, Garden of Evil, You Only Die Twice, The Ice Maiden, Love Kills, and Dead Man's Daughter.
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