This is the first in a series about Britt Montero, a Cuban-Angelo journalist. She is working for a Miami newspaper covering the police beat so she is always there when a crime is committed. She has many connections on the force and the streets.
Of course it is hard for a police chasing reporter to meet the right man. "My personal life is a battlefield littered with corpses of once-promising relationships." But then there is a love interest that starts developing in this first book of the series. "All I wanted was to go home alone, mope a little and get to bed early. ....That is why it is difficult to explain how I wound up dining on smoked salmon and red snapper and sipping 1986 Chardonnay in an intimate and elegant little restaurant on a side street in Coral Gables, with Sgt. Kendall McDonald."
Of course there is a mother who doesn't like that her daughter has this unfeminine career and also doesn't like the way she dresses. The mother is hoping for her daughter to meet a nice man and settle down.
"Call had come from my mother(I know you are always busy Britt but so am I. We're having a huge sale, thirty per cent off. Come and take a look. Your wardrobe could certainly use it.)"
Author Edna Buchanan was a newspaper journalist for the Miami Herald and won the Pulitzer Prize for her news stories so she is in the perfect position to write these mystery novels. Even with the topics Buchanan picks for her plots these are still a fun light read that goes grabs your attention and reads quickly.
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