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Edna Buchanan Books in Order

Edna Buchanan has written 20 books, published between 1979 and 2017. The first book is Carr: Five Years of Rape and Murder (1979) and the newest is Dead Man's Daughter (2017). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
20
Published
1979–2017
Pages on record
5,681 in 18 of 20 books
Reading time
95–142 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 5,681 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 18 of 20 titles with a page count on record.

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Edna Buchanan covered the police beat in Miami and won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for General News Reporting for that work. Her non-fiction, including The Corpse Had a Familiar Face (1987) and Vice: Life and Death on the Streets of Miami (1992), came out of the same city. Buchanan then turned to crime fiction: the Britt Montero novels follow a Miami woman journalist, and the Craig Burch and Michael Venturi books follow. Twenty catalogued titles end at Dead Man's Daughter (2017).

How many Edna Buchanan books are there?

Edna Buchanan has 20 books, released between 1979 and 2017. They include 3 series and 7 titles listed outside any series.

Edna Buchanan Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 20 Edna Buchanan books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of The Corpse Had a Familiar Face: Covering Miami, America's Hottest Beat by Edna Buchanan (1987)
  2. Cover of Nobody Lives Forever by Edna Buchanan (1990)
  3. Cover of Contents Under Pressure by Edna Buchanan, book 1 of the Britt Montero series (1992)
  4. Cover of Never Let Them See You Cry: More from Miami, America's Hottest Beat by Edna Buchanan (1992)
  5. Cover of Miami, It's Murder by Edna Buchanan, book 2 of the Britt Montero series (1994)
  6. Cover of Suitable for Framing by Edna Buchanan, book 3 of the Britt Montero series (1994)
  7. Cover of Margin of Error by Edna Buchanan, book 5 of the Britt Montero series (1997)
  8. Cover of Pulse by Edna Buchanan (1998)
  9. Cover of Garden of Evil by Edna Buchanan, book 6 of the Britt Montero series (1999)
  10. Cover of Cold Case Squad by Edna Buchanan, book 1 of the Craig Burch series (2001)
  11. Cover of You Only Die Twice by Edna Buchanan, book 7 of the Britt Montero series (2001)
  12. Cover of The Ice Maiden by Edna Buchanan, book 8 of the Britt Montero series (2002)
  13. Cover of Shadows by Edna Buchanan, book 2 of the Craig Burch series (2005)
  14. Cover of Love Kills by Edna Buchanan, book 9 of the Britt Montero series (2007)
  15. Cover of Legally Dead by Edna Buchanan, book 1 of the Michael Venturi series (2008)
  16. Cover of A Dark and Lonely Place by Edna Buchanan (2011)
  17. Cover of Dead Man's Daughter by Edna Buchanan, book 10 of the Britt Montero series (2017)
  1. 1
    Carr: Five Years of Rape and Murder1979 · 261 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1979261
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  2. 2
    The Corpse Had a Familiar Face: Covering Miami, America's Hottest Beat1987 · 1 pages · confirmed 2/4
    19871
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  3. 3
    Nobody Lives Forever1990 · 399 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1990399
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  4. 4
    Contents Under PressureBritt Montero #11992 · 310 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1992310
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  5. 5
    Never Let Them See You Cry: More from Miami, America's Hottest Beat1992 · 327 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1992327
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  6. 6
    Vice: Life and Death on the Streets of Miami1992 · 327 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1992327
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  7. 7
    Miami, It's MurderBritt Montero #21994 · 307 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1994307
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  8. 8
    Suitable for FramingBritt Montero #31994 · 356 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1994356
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  9. 9
    Act of BetrayalBritt Montero #41996 · confirmed 2/4
    1996–
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  10. 10
    Margin of ErrorBritt Montero #51997 · confirmed 2/4
    1997–
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  11. 11
    Pulse1998 · 321 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1998321
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  12. 12
    Garden of EvilBritt Montero #61999 · 308 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1999308
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  13. 13
    Cold Case SquadCraig Burch #12001 · 340 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2001340
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  14. 14
    You Only Die TwiceBritt Montero #72001 · 292 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2001292
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  15. 15
    The Ice MaidenBritt Montero #82002 · 306 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2002306
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  16. 16
    ShadowsCraig Burch #22005 · 368 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2005368
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  17. 17
    Love KillsBritt Montero #92007 · 352 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2007352
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  18. 18
    Legally DeadMichael Venturi #12008 · 368 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2008368
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  19. 19
    A Dark and Lonely Place2011 · 418 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2011418
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  20. 20
    Dead Man's DaughterBritt Montero #102017 · 320 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2017320
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Edna Buchanan books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Britt Montero in order

10 books
  1. 1. Contents Under Pressure
  2. 2. Miami, It's Murder
  3. 3. Suitable for Framing
  4. 4. Act of Betrayal
  5. 5. Margin of Error
  6. 6. Garden of Evil
  7. 7. You Only Die Twice
  8. 8. The Ice Maiden
  9. 9. Love Kills
  10. 10. Dead Man's Daughter

Craig Burch in order

2 books
  1. 1. Cold Case Squad
  2. 2. Shadows

Michael Venturi in order

1 book
  1. 1. Legally Dead

Standalone books

7 books

7 Edna Buchanan titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Edna Buchanan books in order?

You only need to read Edna Buchanan books in order within each series: the books listed here span 3 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.

Where to start with Edna Buchanan

Start with Carr: Five Years of Rape and Murder (1979), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Edna Buchanan book?

Dead Man's Daughter (2017) is the newest Edna Buchanan book released so far.

Is there a new Edna Buchanan book coming?

No next Edna Buchanan book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Awards Edna Buchanan has won

Wikidata records 1 award for Edna Buchanan. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

  • Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting1986Wonfor Miami Herald

Edna Buchanan at a glance

No recent titles
The newest Edna Buchanan title on record dates from 2017, 9 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
Edna Buchanan books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
5,681 pages across the 18 of 20 books with a recorded length, a median of 324 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Edna Buchanan books, 10 of 20, were published in the 1990s.

What the Edna Buchanan books are about

18 of the 20 Edna Buchanan books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: britt montero (fictitious character) is tagged on 9 of 18. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.