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Summary: Great
Review: I just finished reading this book and it was great. It starts out with a body found on the beach. Britt Montero decides to check this out and finds out the women was reported dead 10 years ago and the man who was found guilty of killing her is to die in a few days. As she gets involved she puts her life in total danger. The ending is edge of the seat reading. Edna Buchanan's book's are all great but this is one of her best.
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Summary: You Only Die Twice, clever title for a clever book.....
Review: If you have never read a book from this series then do yourself a favor and start with the first one--you won't be sorry. Through seven books Ms. Buchanan has been able to maintain a freshness, and vitality both for her stories and her protaganist, Britt Montero. Buchanan gives us enough of the personal side of Britt so that you feel involved in her life yet that personal side never overshadows the mystery or suspense of the story. Miami is revealed in all her glory, beauty, edginess and sometimes violent ways. This was a great book and another in a great series.
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Summary: You only die twice -- but will read many times
Review: Just when you think what is going on in this novel, something changes. I have never read one of Ms. Buchanan's novels before, but the title grabbed me. I will admit that it was a fast read and I was hooked almost from the beginning of the novel. The story is the murder of Kaitlin Jordan, who is found washed up on a Miami beach, 10 years after she is supposed to have been murdered by her husband. The list of suspects changes throughout the novel. There are many questions--where has she been? who is she now? why did she come back? Through all the twists and turns, Britt Montero becomes not only involved deeply in the mystery, but also in figuring out what she wants out of her life at this point.
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Summary: A murder mystery with many red herrings...
Review: Just when you think what is going on in this novel, something changes. I have never read one of Ms. Buchanan's novels before, but the title grabbed me. I will admit that it was a fast read and I was hooked almost from the beginning of the novel. The story is the murder of Kaitlin Jordan, who is found washed up on a Miami beach, 10 years after she is supposed to have been murdered by her husband. The list of suspects changes throughout the novel. There are many questions--where has she been? who is she now? why did she come back? Through all the twists and turns, Britt Montero becomes not only involved deeply in the mystery, but also in figuring out what she wants out of her life at this point.
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Summary: Reader Ruins Britt Montero
Review: No, I haven't heard this. Never, never will I purchase an Edna Buchanon book recording as long as a Sandra Burr is the reader. The abridged versions have been dumbed down, and Burr's rendition of Britt Montero--a police reporter for a large Miami paper who necessarily has seen everything and done lots, too--is repugnantly silly. Britt with a falcetto voice? Britt with a gee-whiz mentality, constantly surprised, sounding like Snow White herself? What an abomination. Skip all the recordings, go to the books and enjoy good story and well developed characters.
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Summary: Miami Vice
Review: R. J. Jordan will be executed one week hence for the murder of his wife ten years ago. But then a fresh corpse washes up on the beech - and turns out to be Kaithlin, the wife. Where has she been for ten years? Why did she not clear Jordan from the murder charges? Super reporter Britt Montero goes after this mystery, slowly unpeeling Kaithlin's history before her disappearance: she certainly was a woman with brains, but still remains mysterious.Other characters flesh out the story and make this a real page turner. Buchanan has a knack of leading you down the wrong path - and then springing another surprise. A wonderful mystery, sharply etched in characters and action.
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Summary: They Don't Get Better Than This
Review: Reading "You Only Die Twice," I couldn't help wondering why Edna Buchanan isn't as nationally successful as Sue Grafton, Janet Evanovich or other inferior mystery authors. (James Patterson, are you listening?) As the title of this review states, they don't get better than this. After the far-fetched "Garden of Evil," Buchanan's alter-ego Britt Montero is back in superior form, investigating the death of a naked woman found drowned on the beach. Buchanon brings her talents as a real news reporter to the solving of this puzzle, and the results are never less than breathtaking. What a pleasure to experience an honest-to-goodness mystery master at the top of her form. If you haven't read Buchanon before, check out the earlier Montero books. But by all means get this one as well. You won't be sorry.
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Summary: REJOICE - BRITT'S BACK!
Review: Rejoice thriller fans, Britt's back - ace crime reporter Britt Montero, that is, creation of Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter/author Edna Buchanan. The scene is, of course, Miami, where the sun always shines and crime stats. pile high. Britt hears that the body of a once beautiful young woman has just washed up on the beach. Through fingerprints the woman is identified as Kaithlin Jordan, a member of an important department store family. Evidently, Kaithlin once held sway at the family's flagship store, calling the shots and rasing the revenue. There are conundrums, as always - a major one being that Kaithlin has been dead for ten years. In fact, her killer is scheduled to be executed for her murder in one week. Where has the woman been for a decade, what has she been doing and who killed her - twice? Britt needs all her resources to solves this crime that has more twists than a corkscrew. Edna Buchanan is a pro at devising plots that reel readers in. With "You Only Die Twice" she's hooked us once again.
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Summary: Fabulous Suspense From a Maven
Review: The death warrant has been signed and R. J. Jordan is days away from execution by the State of Florida for the 10-year-old murder of his beautiful young wife, Kaithlin. Kaithlin's body was never found, but the circumstantial evidence of her demise was so overwhelming that R. J.'s protestations of innocence fell on deaf ears. Miami crime reporter Britt Montero is on the beach when the freshly murdered body of a young woman washes ashore. Imagine the chagrin of law enforcement officials when the body is finally identified as that of ... Kaithlin Jordan. After an emergency hearing, an understandably surly R. J. Jordan is released from prison and Britt begins her investigation into where Kaithlin Jordan has been for the past ten years and why she suddenly showed up dead in Miami, to say nothing of who killed her. The answers to these questions and more will shock you and, chillingly, this scenario could so easily actually happen. The pace of this absolutely fabulous thriller is so frantic that I finished it in one evening. Nobody writes 'em like Edna Buchanan, who's been there and done that.
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Summary: A mystery about mothers and children
Review: This book is a thrill ride -- a great mystery with some terrific plot twists. But, like the more recent ICE MAIDEN, it's also about more than murder. It starts with a murder victim who has a complicated relationship with her mother. Then there's the convicted killer whose relationship with HIS mother can only be described as tortured. Our heroine, Britt, finds that her mother, with whom she has a tense relationship at best, can offer insight into the case. There's another pivotal mother-child relationship that I won't go into because I don't want to spoil the plot twist. Read this book and you'll get more than a great mystery.
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