Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, Edna Buchanan goes deep into Miami's violent underworld, looking at its bloody history, its unsolved murders, its violent, often drug-related crimes. She details the case of the two-and-a-half-year-old boy framed for murder by his mother, the story of a 90-year-old bridegroom who battered his 76-year-old bride to death with a claw hammer on the first night of their honeymoon, and examines the incidence of alarming numbers of missing persons within the city. Also, there are the heroes - a whole family who are, one by one, cut down by cancer. In a city - thanks in large part to "Miami Vice" - life often imitates art, Edna Buchanan has gruesome stories to tell about the murderers, arsonists, burglars and drug lawyers: the Miami Beach policemen, the firefighters and the judges. And most important, the ordinary, decent people who help one another and try to build a better city for their children.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
This is to Literature what sardines are to fine dining.Lots there but more bones than meat.
Nov 28 2010
By Wayne Cooper
Format:Hardcover
This review is for the hardcover edition measuring 9 1/2 X 6 1/4 having 227 pages and NO PHOTOGRAPHS AT ALL!!!!!!
Please....tell me why an author covering 20 years of her life as a crime reporter in one of America's largest crime-ridden cities DOES NOT even grace this poor quality book with at least the usual 8 pages of photos???
Aside from that ( which incidentally cost her 1 star ) is the quality of the writing.
For a Pulitzer Prize winner this book is very obviously cribbed together from her 'Crime Beat " column.
There is no cohesiveness within the book save the fact that it is mostly about crime and what a great and necessary part her work is ( as a reporter ) in the overall well-being of life for the poor and downtrodden on Miami's dirty little streets.
In case you don't remember that she makes sure she beats our heads with it several times throughout the 'book'.
Just as a sidebar...in 2007 there were 594 Murders in Canada, while in Miami-Dade county alone there were 347.
If that's something to be proud of then proud she is but not for me.
Buying this book is a great time saver however as it's obvious from the writing style and scatter-shot choice of articles that this 'book' is really nothing more than 20 years of her newspaper column....so I suppose it's faster and cheaper than buying her paper every week.
Recommended ONLY to the die-hard crime-quickie buff.
If you want a crimagasm and don't care about motives or background....here ya go!
All shinola and no gold.
Please....tell me why an author covering 20 years of her life as a crime reporter in one of America's largest crime-ridden cities DOES NOT even grace this poor quality book with at least the usual 8 pages of photos???
Aside from that ( which incidentally cost her 1 star ) is the quality of the writing.
For a Pulitzer Prize winner this book is very obviously cribbed together from her 'Crime Beat " column.
There is no cohesiveness within the book save the fact that it is mostly about crime and what a great and necessary part her work is ( as a reporter ) in the overall well-being of life for the poor and downtrodden on Miami's dirty little streets.
In case you don't remember that she makes sure she beats our heads with it several times throughout the 'book'.
Just as a sidebar...in 2007 there were 594 Murders in Canada, while in Miami-Dade county alone there were 347.
If that's something to be proud of then proud she is but not for me.
Buying this book is a great time saver however as it's obvious from the writing style and scatter-shot choice of articles that this 'book' is really nothing more than 20 years of her newspaper column....so I suppose it's faster and cheaper than buying her paper every week.
Recommended ONLY to the die-hard crime-quickie buff.
If you want a crimagasm and don't care about motives or background....here ya go!
All shinola and no gold.
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